The Namibian Police, together with their Zambian counterparts, held a street procession to raise awareness of trafficking in persons in the two bordering towns of Sesheke and Katima Mulilo. 

The two governments have now taken steps to fight crimes related to trafficking in persons, following last year's Namibia/Zambia Joint Permanent Commission on Defence and Security.

Commissioner Moritz Naruseb is the Head of the Criminal Investigations Directorate. 

"Since yesterday, we started implementing our two authorities' resolutions: one training for our law enforcement and secondly for awareness campaigns. Now, yesterday we started with the training process; we had several sessions of training with our law enforcement. Both Namibia and Zambia had 15 officers, and today in the morning, we continued with our awareness campaigns on trafficking in persons or human trafficking." 

Addressing residents, Deputy Commissioner Florietha Jantjies, Head of Police Higher Profile Investigations Division, said that from the reported cases, child trafficking has become prevalent in the region.

"From the cases we have, it is evident that we have child trafficking involved, especially in Katima Mulilo; it simply means that a child who belongs in school is being employed as a cattle herder or domestic worker. In some of these cases, people have been arrested, and that includes Namibian nationals trafficking these children from either Zambia or within Namibia. It is also evident that parents themselves can traffic their own children; people are being paid just to hand over their child to somebody else to be exploited somewhere else. And it is time that we have to bring an end to child trafficking as well."

A community member, Frieda Tungulu, complained about the lack of efficiency within the police.

Another concern raised by the residents is the lack of a properly functioning police substation that only has one police officer, who they feel cannot cater to all community concerns due to the large number of cases.