Bloomington forms regional unit to fight human trafficking
Bloomington police announced a new regional multi-agency investigative unit to fight human trafficking and will detail it at a 1 p.m. Thursday press conference in Bloomington.[1]
Chief Booker Hodges, Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt and Dakota County Sheriff Joe Leko are scheduled to speak at the news conference.[1] Bloomington officials say the unit follows a two-day late-August operation that recovered trafficking victims and involved the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), the Hennepin and Dakota county sheriffs, and several south-metro police departments.[1]
Late in August, a two-day operation recovered trafficking victims and included the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), the Hennepin and Dakota county sheriffs, and several south-metro departments.[1] Officials said lessons from that operation exposed gaps in cross-jurisdiction investigations and victim recovery, prompting Bloomington to seek a standing regional team to improve investigations and services.[1]
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- Bloomington Police Department plans a new multi-agency unit to investigate and address human trafficking in the Twin Cities metro.
- A two-day late-August operation focused on recovering trafficking victims and involved the BCA, Hennepin County Sheriff, Dakota County Sheriff and several south-metro police departments.
- Chief Booker Hodges, Sheriff Dawanna Witt and Sheriff Joe Leko will detail the new unit at a 1 p.m. Thursday press conference in Bloomington.
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