{"id":1606,"date":"2024-02-29T12:56:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T12:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/2024\/02\/29\/humantrafficking-and-child-prostitution-awareness-roadblock-on-n12-in-britstown\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T12:56:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T12:56:58","slug":"humantrafficking-and-child-prostitution-awareness-roadblock-on-n12-in-britstown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/2024\/02\/29\/humantrafficking-and-child-prostitution-awareness-roadblock-on-n12-in-britstown\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution Awareness Roadblock on N12 in Britstown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-1605\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/IMG-20240228-WA0030.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 20240228 WA0030\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px 10px 5px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/IMG-20240228-WA0030.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/IMG-20240228-WA0030-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/IMG-20240228-WA0030-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/IMG-20240228-WA0030-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>[In Picture] On 28 February 2024, The Pixley Ka Seme District Office partnered with Provincial Traffic Inspectors, South African Police Service (SAPS), Dept. of Health (DOH), Dept. Of Justice (DOJ), Dept. of Social Development (DSD), Community in Blue (CIB) and other safety participants for the Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution Awareness Campaign on the N12 in Britstown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">This action campaign focussed on engaging a wide variety of stakeholders in becoming alert to, and challenging, child prostitution and trafficking in Britstown. The ultimate aim of the Roadblock was to eliminate the practice through engagement with Truck Drivers at the Roadblock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The roadblock operation resulted in:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Trucks stopped &#8211; 75<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Vehicles stopped &#8211; 93<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Searched (both trucks &amp; vehicles) &#8211; 55<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Traffic fines &#8211; 168<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The SAPS Organised Crime Unit was also involved in investigating organised crime that surrounded child trafficking.&nbsp;The Department is devoted to combat child trafficking by various local government conventions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[In Picture] On 28 February 2024, The Pixley Ka Seme District Office partnered with Provincial Traffic Inspectors, South African Police Service (SAPS), Dept. of Health (DOH), Dept. Of Justice (DOJ), Dept. of Social Development (DSD), Community in Blue (CIB) and other safety participants for the Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution Awareness Campaign on the N12<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/2024\/02\/29\/humantrafficking-and-child-prostitution-awareness-roadblock-on-n12-in-britstown\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}