Article 18b
1. Member States shall promote or offer regular and specialised training for professionals likely to come into contact with victims or potential victims of trafficking in human beings, including front-line police officers, court staff, assistance and support services, labour inspectors, social services and healthcare workers, aimed at enabling them to prevent and combat trafficking in human beings and to avoid secondary victimisation, and to detect, identify, assist, support and protect the victims. Such training shall be human-rights based, victim-centred, and gender-, disability- and child-sensitive. 2. Without prejudice to judicial independence and differences in the organisation of the judiciary across the Union, Member States shall encourage both general and specialised training for judges and prosecutors involved in criminal proceedings aimed at enabling them to prevent and combat trafficking in human beings and avoid secondary victimisation, and to detect, identify, assist, support and protect the victims. Such training shall be human-rights based, victim-centred, and gender-, disability- and child-sensitive.