PEARL, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi law officers are learning how to more thoroughly investigate cases of human trafficking.
About 80 state and local officers are at the Law Enforcement Training Academy for sessions that started Monday and ends Wednesday.
Heather Wagner, a special assistant state attorney general, says human trafficking is forced labor. It can involve people who are coerced to work in sex jobs such as prostitution or pornography or in other fields such as manufacturing, farming, construction, janitorial services or restaurant work.
Mississippi's homeland security director, Rusty Barnes, says human trafficking is not just limited to big cities. He says small towns and rural areas can have problems, too.
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