Officer is now coordinator of the force’s Project Kokomi-Kisomm Aakii, or Project Moon Woman, whose aim is to investigate human trafficking cases while raising awareness and training front-line officers
It took a few years on the job for Const. Jennaye Norris to realize the Blood Tribe in southern Alberta has a human trafficking problem.
Norris said a few years ago while working drug cases she learned about girls and women from the reserve being forced into the sex trade. The men became their “boyfriends,” Norris said. But the women were “actually getting trafficked through the main corridors of Alberta, which is Calgary, Red Deer, Edmonton and then even over to Vancouver.”
“Indigenous women are more vulnerable to get trafficked,” said Norris. “They think the men can give them a better life than what they have and then kind of lure them in that way.” Norris, who is from Medicine Hat, isn’t Indigenous. But she said as a woman she hopes victims will feel they can talk with her.Staff Sgt. Brad Moore with the Calgary Police Child Abuse Unit said human trafficking is an under-reported crime. The city force had 23 reported human trafficking cases last year, up from 21 in 2020.“Some of them come from very troubled backgrounds, from living arrangements, and where they’re going in their minds is sometimes better than where they came from.
“It’s horrendous and it’s tragic … I don’t think people understand that it needs to be put out into the schools and to let people know before they get out into the world,” said Teegee, a social worker with the Mini Thni Crisis Support Team.“I think most are afraid to speak out because it’s a hush, hush topic.”
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