Manual for Training Police on Anti Human Trafficking

<strong>Manual</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Training</strong> <strong>Police</strong> on Anti Human Trafficking 10
1. INTRODUCTION TO THE TRAINING
Objectives
With the help of icebreaker exercises, to foster leadership and teamwork by building a sense of
mutual trust, cooperation and responsibility.
To share the overall curriculum and duration of the AHT training program with the participants.
To understand expectations and anxieties of the participants on AHT.
To draw ground rules <strong>for</strong> the training program.
To encourage course material appreciation.
ICEBREAKER EXERCISE
Trust Me
Estimated time : 10 mins
Material required : Blindfolds. Recommended setting outdoors with no dangerous obstacles
around
Methodology : This is a team-building exercise in which participants are given
instructions to guide a blindfolded partner with the objective of avoiding
obstacles and maintaining their trust
Activity
1) Find a good location, such as an open spot outside. Pair off the participants, and designate one
partner in each couple as the navigator (guide) and the other to be the blindfolded. The guide
then slowly spins the blindfolded partner around so they lose their sense of direction.
2) The guide then proceeds to give the partner verbal clues to guide them, without ever touching
their partner (e.g. “About five steps ahead, there is a branch. Step over it slowly.”) The guide
alone is responsible <strong>for</strong> his/her partner’s safety and should there<strong>for</strong>e act as his/her partners’
‘eyes’, navigating to avoid all obstacles.
3) It is imperative that the guide takes his/her role seriously, as solely s/he is responsible <strong>for</strong> his or
her partner’s safety and must there<strong>for</strong>e navigate his/her partner to avoid all obstacles. Repeat
the same game switching partner roles.
4) At the end of the icebreaker, you can ask the participants to reflect upon their experiences and
share with one another how it felt to guide, or be guided (see sample questions).
Expected outcome: Participants learn how to cooperate as a team, and build relationships built on
mutual trust and care <strong>for</strong> one another’s well-being. This game can be linked to the relationship developed
in police-survivor interactions, whereby the police personnel are supposed to represent support and
protection, and, ideally, the survivor is able to place their trust in the police. Another parallel that can
be drawn between this icebreaker and AHT is that, upon being blindfolded, the participants lose their
sense of security, orientation, and even confidence. These feelings of insecurities are common to the
trafficked person, albeit on much deeper level, since they faced multiple traumas, both physically and
psychologically. Furthermore, the blindfolded person will naturally experience some hesitation in ‘blindly
following’ their guide’s directions – on a small scale, this reluctance is indicative of the strong sense of
mistrust and doubt that has become engrained in the survivor after a long string of deceptions, betrayals
and lies. For a better understanding of the psycho-social state of survivors of HT, refer to Module Three
as well as UNODC’s <strong>Manual</strong> on Psychosocial Intervention.