Exchange of experience
05-07-2018Associate professor of Department of Forensics (NAIA Research and Training Institute № 2) Yurii Prykhodko took part in expert meeting on weapon use authorization within the framework of Global Firearms Programme (GFP) held on June 25-29 in Vienna.
Teaching staff from numerous states – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Greece, Georgia, Ethiopia, Italy, Cote-d’Ivoire, Macedonia, Republic of Sudan, Serbia, Uganda and Germany – took part in this event.
Since 2011 the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) assists Member States through its Global Firearms Programme (GFP) in preventing and combating the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components, and ammunition. GFP further supports States’ efforts to prevent the illicit supply and diversion of firearms into the hands of criminal groups, to effectively investigate and prosecute firearms-related crimes and their perpetrators as well as establishing links between the illicit trafficking in firearms and other forms of organized crime and terrorism. GFP’s efforts are based on advocating for universal adherence to, and assisting States in the effective implementation of the Convention and its Firearms Protocol and related global and regional instruments.
UNODC developed projects of 14 training modules focusing on key aspects related to firearms namely: its accessability and illegal use, basic knowledge, legal firearm market, illegal firearm market, international legislative acts regulating the firearm distribution etc.
The aim of this meeting was to discuss the abovementioned modules and provide comments, remarks and recommendations along with discussion of GFP implementation dynamics.
All recommendations and remarks were accumulated by UNODC for further examination and use as background for updating the existing training programs and creation of new ones upon the UN Secretariat consent.
Department of Forensics, Research and Training Institute № 2
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