CEBU CITY, Philippines (PNA) -– A senior police official in Cebu said the police needed training on new technologies to fight human trafficking.

Senior Supt. Teofilo Siclot, deputy director of the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO), said they will train all town police chiefs to be familiar with how traffickers use the Internet as a medium for illegal activities.

”Their skills are inadequate,” he said.

Last April, a cybersex den in Consolacion town was raided by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) 7.

The CIDG 7 personnel rescued seven persons from two apartments in Barangay Poblacion Occidental. They arrested two female caretakers and seized five desktop computers, a laptop, sex toys and documents.

An asset informed the police about the cybersex den, which is reportedly owned by a Dutch national and managed by a Filipina.

In Cordova early this month, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 7 arrested a couple who presented their three children and a niece naked in front of a computer-mounted camera.

Chief Supt. Samuel Yordan, deputy director for administration of the Police Regional Office 7, said human trafficking is a problem they have yet to solve.

He said they will continue monitoring establishments that could be employing trafficked persons.

”Rest assured that we are doing our part in identifying the human traffickers,” Yordan said.