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# Combat Trafficking in Person Prevention Month

By Mike MobleyDLA Installation Support at Columbus Security and Emergency Services

                COLUMBUS, Ohio  –              
Human trafficking is a crime that victimizes millions around the world and represents one of the greatest human rights abuses of our time. January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.

## What is Trafficking In Persons (TIP)?

TIP is a worldwide problem posing a transnational threat involving violations of basic human rights. TIP is a leading source of profits for organized crime, together with drugs and weapons, generating billions of dollars. TIP affects virtually every country in the world. The Department of Defense has a zero tolerance policy for TIP. TIP is the use of force, fraud or coercion to compel a person to provide labor, services or commercial sex. TIP involves exploitation of all types. TIP can include elements of recruiting, harboring, transportation, providing or obtaining a person for the purpose of exploitation. The three most common forms of trafficking are:
                              - Labor Trafficking
                              - Sex Trafficking
                              - Child Soldiering

Human trafficking not only affects those in developing nations, but can be found here in the United States and on the streets of Columbus as well as rural Ohio. Security and Emergency Services encourage all Defense Supply Center Columbus associates to promote awareness of this issue during the month of January and throughout the year.

For more information, visit the U.S. Department of Defense “Combating Trafficking in Persons” website.

The DSCC point of contact for CTIP is Mike Mobley, who can be reached at 614-692-2660.

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