(BCN) — Officers in Santa Rosa worked with federal, county and local agencies on Wednesday on a coordinated operation aimed at identifying potential victims of human trafficking and connecting them with support services, police said.
The operation, led by the Santa Rosa Police Department Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Unit, focused on people engaged in commercial sex who may have been working under conditions of force, fraud or coercion, or who were otherwise vulnerable to exploitation.
Detectives contacted five women during the operation and offered each of them support services and resources. All five were later released from the scene, police said…