PGI 222.1703  Policy.

(i)  The DoD Office of the Deputy Inspector General for Inspections and Policy (DoD OIG(I&P)) assists in implementing DoD Trafficking in Persons (TIP) programs and evaluates DoD's efforts to combat TIP. The DoD OIG(I&P) TIP website is http://www.dodig.mil/Inspections/IPO/combatinghuman.htm. The website includes DoD policy memoranda, TIP awareness policy, DoD OIG policy on human trafficking, TIP awareness training, and a link to the Department of State TIP website, http://www.state.gov/g/tip.

(ii)  Secretary of Defense memorandum of September 16, 2004 (located at http://www.dodig.mil/Inspections/IPO/SECDEF_TIP_Policy2.pdf), Subject: Combating Trafficking in Persons, states that "Trafficking includes involuntary servitude and debt bondage. These trafficking practices will not be tolerated in DoD contractor organizations or their subcontractors in supporting DoD operations."

(iii)  Department of Defense Instruction 2200.01, dated February 16, 2007, entitled Combating Trafficking in Persons, (located at http://ctip.defense.gov/docs/TIP%20DODI%20220001p.pdf), requires the incorporation of provisions in overseas contracts that-

(A)  Prohibit any activities on the part of contractor employees that support or promote trafficking in persons; and

(B)  Impose suitable penalties on contractors who fail to monitor the conduct of their employees.

(iv)  DoD Instruction 5525.11, Criminal Jurisdiction Over Civilians Employed By or Accompanying the Armed Forces Outside the United States, Certain Service Members, and Former Service Members, dated March 3, 2005, located at http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/552511p.pdf, and as supplemented by Directive-Type Memorandum 09-015 at http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/DTM-09-015.pdf, implements policies and procedures, and assigns responsibilities, under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act of 2000, as amended by Section 1088 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005, for exercising extraterritorial criminal jurisdiction over certain current and former members of the U.S. Armed Forces, and over civilians employed by or accompanying the U.S. Armed Forces outside the United States.