Dave Rivard presented for Airline Ambassadors at the Interpol Conference on Trafficking in Human Beings in Doha, Qatar on Dec. 7 2017, reporting on the global reporting tool….the TIP Line App and CTIP Reporting. See abstract below:
INTERPOL PROJECT TO SUPPORT COUNTER MIGRANT SMUGGLING CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMS
Dave also presented to the Regional Working Group Meeting on Private Sector Cooperation in October as part of a group composed of members of the INTERPOL Specialized Operational Network against People Smuggling (ISON) from countries in the Balkans region (Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia), as well as 
presenters from private companies, regional law enforcement bodies and international organizations and institutions. DHS gave guidance, along with chiefs from various Balkan police departments and INTERPOL. AAI, along with these Balkan Representatives, conceived a plan to provide counter human trafficking training in several countries, to commence in early 2018. These countries harbor the major migration route for trafficked Middle Eastern and African refugees into Europe and even the UBER announced that they would like to partner with AAI with our other C-TIP training efforts around the world.
C-TIP Reporting/Data Collection app – Success and Challenge Abstract
Airline Ambassadors International (AAI) has led global airline industry awareness for Trafficking in Persons (TIP) since 2009 and has developed the first industry specific training. AAI provides for vulnerable communities by leveraging partnerships with the airline industry and is comprised of over 16,000 airline employees who “travel to make a difference”.
AAI is still the only organization conducting Counter-Trafficking in Persons (C-TIP) Training at airports. To date, AAI has conducted 65 C-TIP Trainings that now link over 6,000 front line professionals with law enforcement. As each flight attendant interacts 
with a minimum of 500 passengers per week, AAI C-TIP trainees are, so far, capable of monitoring over 156,000,000 passengers per year! If all 200,000 Members from the U.S. based Association of Professional Flight Attendants alone were trained, they would be capable of monitoring over 5.2 billion passengers. According to ICAO, 3.7 billion passengers flew in 2016.
AAI’s program is a seeming success, however, the key goal of training is reporting – and data sharing to understand how effective the C-TIP training is. AAI Trainees have complained that National TIP Hotlines are largely ineffective in reporting this crime, and reporting incidences are not shared with NGO or public programs, whose assistance law enforcement calls for. Additionally, no national TIP hotline today has time critical situation functionality.
To make its trainings effective, AAI originally developed the “TIP Line” app. Now, it’s successor, “C-TIP”, swiftly communicates to users, featuring end-to-end, peer-to-peer encrypted communication capabilities with data rich information – that all national tip hotlines are unable
to receive. Also, although trained and employed professionals can contribute high quality threat information, the attribute of volume as measured against positive alerts is difficult to assess when agencies will not share whether or not a report was positively identified.
This presentation discusses both challenges and opportunities of developing citizen networks that can assist law enforcement.
