The starting place for our community partnerships is that we don't have active enforcement of PCEPA in particular. Trafficking legislation would be used where people experience, identify, or have convincing evidence of trafficking. I don't think it's used very much at all. We're talking probably less than five cases in maybe the last 15 years. It's about setting a stage where people don't have to worry about police harassment because they're in the sex industry and who don't have to worry about invasive raid techniques and things like that. From there, we work with two officers who are specifically trained in the sex industry and who specifically understand our philosophy.
It's very incremental work we've been doing over many years. The antagonism, I guess, that's been set up by criminalization between people in the sex industry and police is multi-generational and of long standing. We do a lot of work in terms of relationship-building. Our liaison officers spend a lot of time doing training at Peers. They absolutely have to respect the perspectives of the people who are coming forward. We work with them in staff training and in multiple areas.
We also enjoy relationships with the sexual assault centre, the intercultural association, the Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society, and the native friendship centre. In doing that, I think it's important that we're all looking at the factors that influence gender and sexualized violence in our community. They're not especially different for people in the sex industry. What's different for people in the sex industry is that they are uniquely stigmatized and are not granted the basic premise that they should be able to identify and have rights over their experience of victimization.
Those are some of the things that I think are unique to the work we're doing to address sexualized violence. We do not see sex work or the sex trade as necessarily inherently violent, but we do want to address sexualized violence.