Thank you very much.
Thank you to our witnesses here today. This is much appreciated by the committee in the work we are doing.
I'd like to start with Peter Warrack.
First of all, welcome to the committee. Thank you for your testimony, and congratulations on all the work you are doing in this area.
You started at the beginning of your testimony saying when you got involved with this and the whole question of human trafficking, the financial institutions were unaware of the transactions that were taking place to facilitate and fund human trafficking.
Toward the end of your testimony you made a very interesting comment, which was that many times police themselves are unaware of the financial aspect of human trafficking. One of the suggestions you made—I like that and hope we can pursue this—was that banks would be invited to the schools to help train our police officers.
Have you made any outreach, or do you know of any outreach that has been made? Has anybody accepted this or thought about this, or is this another brand new idea we have to pursue?