ARTICLE 10
Identification of the Victims
1 Each Party shall provide its competent authorities with persons who are
trained and qualified in preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, in
identifying and helping victims, including children, and shall ensure that the
different authorities collaborate with each other as well as with relevant support
organisations, so that victims can be identified in a procedure duly taking into
account the special situation of women and child victims and, in appropriate cases,
issued with residence permits under the conditions provided for in Article 14 of the
present Convention.
2 Each Party shall adopt such legislative or other measures as may be necessary
to identify victims as appropriate in collaboration with other Parties and relevant
support organisations. Each Party shall ensure that, if the competent authorities
have reasonable grounds to believe that a person has been victim of trafficking in
human beings, that person shall not be removed from its territory until the
identification process as victim of an offence provided for in Article 18 of this
Convention has been completed by the competent authorities and shall likewise
ensure that that person receives the assistance provided for in Article 12,
paragraphs 1 and 2.