The Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment Wednes­day pledged to work with na­tion­al, re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al part­ners in the fight against hu­man traf­fick­ing that it says is dri­ven by crim­i­nal net­works that thrive on the ex­ploita­tion of and gen­er­a­tion of huge prof­its that flow from the suf­fer­ing of vic­tims of traf­fick­ing.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Min­is­ter of Le­gal Af­fairs, Dale Mar­shall, in a mes­sage mark­ing  “World Day Against Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons” said Bar­ba­dos recog­nis­es the im­por­tance of law en­force­ment in dis­man­tling these crim­i­nal net­works.

He said that the Bar­ba­dos Po­lice Ser­vice (BPS) is ac­tive­ly in­volved in de­tect­ing and in­ves­ti­gat­ing sus­pect­ed cas­es of traf­fick­ing and con­tin­ue to work as­sid­u­ous­ly in the fight against traf­fick­ing of per­sons, while un­der­stand­ing the na­ture of traf­fick­ing, us­ing strate­gies that are sen­si­tive to the needs of sus­pect­ed vic­tims of traf­fick­ing.