This guide aims to assist law enforcement leaders in adopting effective multidisciplinary approaches to address child sex trafficking in their communities. This guide describes the following:

• The crime of child sex trafficking
• The challenges in combating child sex trafficking
• Essential steps for law enforcement leaders to take in their jurisdictions
• Partners who can help law enforcement
• Successful multidisciplinary practices in communities around the country.

Download the guide here.

To request hard copies of the guide, e-mail [email protected]. 

The IACP, the FBI and the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, developed a training series to educate frontline officers on how to recognize and respond to victims of child sex trafficking. The videos are centered on the premise of:

                                            RECOGNIZE  RETHINK  RESPOND

Recognize the indicators / Rethink the situation / Respond appropriately and refer for investigation

The toolkit contains a series of training videos to be utilized for training within law enforcement agencies across the country:

• Introduction (2:54)
• Traffic Stop (12:05)
• DV Call (12:10)
• School (10:32)
• Hotel (11:49)
• Hospital (11:46)
• Street Patrol (10:25)

This series of training videos depict sworn law enforcement officers demonstrating alternative responses to different types of scenarios involving child sex trafficking. In addition to the training videos, the toolkit includes:

• Pre-training Instructions for Supervisors
• Discussion Guide
• Tip Card 
• Fact Sheet 
• Indicators 
• Glossary of Terms
• Pull-out 11 x 17 Poster with fillable field for local point of contact for referrals

To request the toolkit Child Sex Trafficking: A Training Series for Frontline Officers, please click here and complete the information requested.

To download the videos and electronic version of the toolkit, access Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal, (LEEP) (formerly known as Law Enforcement online or LEO.gov). Under Services, select Special Interest Group and request access to CACU (Child Prostitution – Innocence Lost). Make sure to indicate that you work child sex trafficking.  Once in the CACU Special Interest Group, click the Resource Tab to find the PDF version of Sex Trafficking of Juveniles: An Investigative Guide for Law Enforcement.

With more than 1 billion users, Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites. After users create a personal profile or organization page and add photos, contact information, and additional information, they can search for people with similar interests, create networks of “friends,” communicate by sending private messages or posting comments on another user’s wall, “like” pages of organizations and join “groups” with other users who share similar interests, and post and share content created on Facebook or linked to another website.

The Police Chiefs Toolkit addresses principal/essential items facing law enforcement executives regarding identity crime. The purpose of this toolkit is to help police leaders take the first steps in leading a change in police culture to expand the role of local law enforcement in preventing, investigating, and responding to identity crime.

The toolkit is divided into four sections:

Leadership and Management: to help police executives become leaders of a cultural shift in policing
Officer Training: to help identify what training your officers need and where to get it
Agency Partnerships: to identify the key partners and how to connect with them
Community Outreach: to help you work with communities to reduce victimizations

Each section provides a brief introduction to the concepts covered, and then follows with a short self-assessment tool to help you determine your own agency’s strengths and potential challenges or areas for improvement. Following the assessment tool, you will find additional resources or tools to help improve your agency’s work in this area, and finally, a section with further information for additional research on topics which may be of particular interest.

The Prevention Toolkit and the Recovery Toolkit provide law enforcement agencies with products (handouts) to assist citizens either faced with recovery (getting back their good name) or prevention (keeping their good name).

Identity theft affects millions of people every year, causing serious and sometimes devastating financial, psychological, and reputational injury. By providing timely and effective assistance, law enforcement can assist in limiting the harm for victims and help begin the recovery process. Agencies should respond to identity theft complaints with the goal of helping victims regain their pre-crime status. This response may include recording identity theft complaints; providing victims with necessary information; and working with other federal, state, and local law enforcement and reporting agencies, as well as financial institutions to solve identity theft cases.

These documents provide law enforcement agencies with protocols for completing identity theft reports, investigating identity theft, and preparing cases for identity theft prosecution, where appropriate.

Electro-Muscular Disruption Technology (EMDT) is a group of devices that use a high-voltage, low power charge of electricity to induce involuntary muscle contractions that cause temporary incapacitation. More police departments are using EMDT on resisting subjects, with a minimum of serious injuries or lethality.

Training Key #616

Identity crime continues to be a major problem in the United States. With the continuing development of new technologies that facilitate identity crime of all kinds, it has become more widespread and increasingly difficult to counteract. A strong law enforcement response is essential in order to arrest and prosecute perpetrators. This Training Key® is the first in a two-part series on this subject.

Training Key #617

Identity crime continues to be a major problem in the United States.With the constant development of new technologies, it has become more widespread and increasingly difficult to counteract. A strong law enforcement response is essential in order to arrest and prosecute perpetrators. This is the second part of a two-part Training Key® on this subject.

Homegrown violent extremists are those who encourage, endorse, condone, justify, or support the commission of a violent criminal act to achieve political, ideological, religious, social, or economic goals by a citizen or long-term resident of a Western country who has rejected Western cultural values, beliefs, and norms.1 Homegrown violent extremists are a diverse group of individuals that can include U.S.-born citizens, naturalized citizens, green card holders or other longterm residents, foreign students, or illegal immigrants. Regardless of their citizenship status, these individuals intend to commit terrorist acts inside Western countries or against Western interests abroad.

Homegrown violent extremists are those who encourage, endorse, condone, justify, or support the commission of a violent criminal act to achieve political, ideological, religious, social, or economic goals by a citizen or long-term resident of a Western country who has rejected Western cultural values, beliefs, and norms