Constable Lepa Jankovic (born 1968) is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. She first started working for the Government of Canada as a customs officer at Niagara Falls' Rainbow Bridge in 1996. As of 2012, she works in the Immigration and Passport unit. In December 2009, she discovered what was, at the time, Canada's largest known human trafficking criminal organization. Jankovic participated in the following year's Freedom Walk as well. In 2012, Toni Skarica said that Ferenc Karadi, a member of the human trafficking ring Jankovic had discovered, should have been arrested even before the ring was discovered because it was known to since September 2009 that Karadi was wanted for crimes committed in Hungary. Skarica accused the involved immigration and police officials, including Jankovic, with negligence for not having arrested Karadi in 2009. Jankovic responded that only an Interpol warrant can give police the power to arrest someone who is wanted to face criminal charges in another country. Jozsef Csorom had been hired as a hitman to kill Jankovic for her involvement in revealing the ring, but he was prevented from travelling to Canada by police in England. Also in 2012, Vic Toews congratulated Jankovic on her work on the human trafficking ring case, which was the largest human trafficking case in the history of Canada. She and fellow officer Husam Farah conducted this criminal investigation for three years.
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