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SYDNEY, N.S. — Commissionaires in Nova Scotia employees are being trained to spot clues of human trafficking, an initiative with a Cape Breton connection.and his idea of how the security and background screening service could help, the Commissionaires decided to push forward with training, which it received from the RCMP recently.
Though there isn’t a known human trafficking aspect to the Indigenous woman’s case, her father pursued training due to the prevalence of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada and the risks to Indigenous women of becoming targets of human traffickers. “This is for my daughter who never got justice as you know. I’m not going to stop there. There’s so much to do in all of Canada.”Commissionaires CEO Barry Pitcher, who spent 24 years in the RCMP, said he welled up over Donovan’s story of losing his daughter and his idea to try to fight human trafficking.“I said , ‘Look, we’re 1,300 strong at all the corridors in and out of Nova Scotia. How do you feel about a partnership and they were all over it.
Initially, there were about 30 employees trained, several of whom took more specialized training so they could train others in the organization.Jennifer Holleman of Kentville was a guest speaker at the training session. She’s lived the horror of losing a loved one to human trafficking.She was involved in the sex trade. Holleman has become an advocate in the fight as her daughter was entangled in a trafficking ring.
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