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Pitt County Sheriff Mac Manning Applies for Trafficking Investigator
The Pitt County Sheriff's Office will serve as the lead agency for a task force investigating human trafficking if the county's application for a federal grant is approved.
Grants Administrator Melissia Larson says the sheriff's department is seeking more than $488,000 over a three-year period to fund an endeavor she says will address an emerging issue nationwide.
The LE Task Force will be a collaborative effort between local law enforcement, the High Point Police Department, the Middle District United States Attorney's Office, the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault and RIPPLE, a current statewide task force.
Grant funding will provide for an investigator for the Pitt County Sheriff's Office and High Point Police and pay for those individuals to train other law enforcement agencies on how to recognize trafficking and how to prevent it.
"Training will be key in this grant because this is an issue that is so difficult to define and identify how it might be occurring in our community," Larson said. "Law enforcement officials have to be able to identify it if they are going to stop it."
No date has been given for a decision about the funding.
Larson describes human trafficking as an offense in which ... more

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