the awareness of the human trafficking in the state increased leading to the recognition of the need for additional training and collaboration among the parties entrusted with the law enforcement. As a result to this urge

legislation in the year 2009 was enacted creating the Texas Human Trafficking Prevention Task force whose primary purpose was to coordinate a statewide response to the human trafficking (Busch-Armendariz et al. 2016). The task force is mandated to increase collaboration among the law enforcement agencies