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Part Two. Article 10 399Notes by the Secretariat1. At the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, the Special Rapporteur on violenceagainst women, its causes and consequences submitted a position paper in which it wasargued that the present article should provide for mandatory cross-cultural, gender and victimsensitivitytraining for police, criminal justice officers and professionals involved in the criminaljustice system. The Special Rapporteur also proposed that a new paragraph 3 should beinserted in the text of the article aiming at prohibiting all measures targeted at preventingand obstructing the voluntary movement of citizens on the ground that they might be or havebeen victims of trafficking (see A/AC.254/CRP.13). The International Labour Organizationproposed that effective law enforcement should include training of labour inspectors and thejudiciary, as well as relevant actors in civil society, such as legal aid and support organizationsand workers’ and employers’ organizations. It also suggested that national or regionalprogrammes of action, including law enforcement measures, should be designed and implementedin consultation with all the relevant government institutions, non-governmentalorganizations and other stakeholders, such as workers’ and employers’ organizations, as wellas private employment/recruitment agencies (see A/AC.254/CRP.14). At the fourth sessionof the Ad Hoc Committee, the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitutionand child pornography proposed that the phrase “except children, who shall always beconsidered as victims” should be inserted in subparagraph 1 (a) (see A/AC.254/CRP.19).2. At the informal consultations held during the fifth session of the Ad HocCommittee, a restructured version of the draft protocol was submitted by Belgium, Polandand the United States (A/AC.254/5/Add.13), in which the present article was incorporatedas article 7.3. The version of this article contained in document A/AC.254/4/Add.3/Rev.2 remainedunchanged in the intermediate drafts of the protocol (A/AC.254/4/Add.3/Revs.3 and 4).Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.3/Rev.5)Sixth session: 6-17 December 1999“III.Prevention, cooperation and other measures“Article 7“Law enforcement measures“1. In addition to adopting the measures provided for in this article and pursuantto article 14 of this Protocol, law enforcement authorities of States Parties shall,as appropriate, cooperate with one another by exchanging information to enable themto determine:“(a) Whether individuals crossing or attempting to cross an international borderwith travel documents belonging to other persons or without travel documents areperpetrators or victims of trafficking in persons;“(b) Whether individuals have used or attempted to use altered or falsified documentationto cross an international border for the purpose of trafficking in persons;“(c) The methods used by groups for transporting victims of such traffickingunder false identities, or with altered or falsified documentation, and the measuresfor detecting them; and