Article 14.
Training and technical cooperation
1. States Parties shall provide or strengthen specialized training for immigration and other relevant officials in preventing the conduct set forth in
article 6 of this Protocol and in the humane treatment of migrants who have
been the object of such conduct, while respecting their rights as set forth in this
Protocol.
2. States Parties shall cooperate with each other and with competent
international organizations, non-governmental organizations, other relevant organizations and other elements of civil society as appropriate to ensure that
there is adequate personnel training in their territories to prevent, combat and
eradicate the conduct set forth in article 6 of this Protocol and to protect the
rights of migrants who have been the object of such conduct. Such training shall
include:
(a) Improving the security and quality of travel documents;
(b) Recognizing and detecting fraudulent travel or identity documents;
(c) Gathering criminal intelligence, relating in particular to the identification of organized criminal groups known to be or suspected of being engaged
in conduct set forth in article 6 of this Protocol, the methods used to transport
smuggled migrants, the misuse of travel or identity documents for purposes of
conduct set forth in article 6 and the means of concealment used in the smuggling of migrants;
(d) Improving procedures for detecting smuggled persons at conventional
and non-conventional points of entry and exit; and
(e) The humane treatment of migrants and the protection of their rights
as set forth in this Protocol.
3. States Parties with relevant expertise shall consider providing technical
assistance to States that are frequently countries of origin or transit for persons
who have been the object of conduct set forth in article 6 of this Protocol. States
Parties shall make every effort to provide the necessary resources, such as vehicles, computer systems and document readers, to combat the conduct set forth
in article 6.
Article 15.
Other prevention measures
1. Each State Party shall take measures to ensure that it provides or
strengthens information programmes to increase public awareness of the fact
that the conduct set forth in article 6 of this Protocol is a criminal activity
frequently perpetrated by organized criminal groups for profit and that it poses
serious risks to the migrants concerned.
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