Join the Community of Practitioners Against Firearms Trafficking and Related Crimes
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Joining the Community of Practitioners will provide you with valuable networking opportunities amongst practitioners like yourself and access to case-based insights and good practices in preventing, detecting, investigating, prosecuting and adjudicating illicit firearms trafficking and related crimes from different disciplines and geographic areas. It will further enable you to address potential knowledge gaps, participate in the sharing of expertise and technical information on topics that relate to your specific practice area and foster durable partnerships with peers from all over the world. Membership to the Community of Practitioners is voluntary and free of charge. It would enable you to receive regular updates on your field of expertise and become actively engaged in supporting and receiving support from other practitioners. Go ahead, register in our roster and ask the expert! |
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ASK THE EXPERT FEATURE You are working on a cross-border case of firearms trafficking and are looking for a contact in a jurisdiction linked to the case to carry on your investigation? In countless workshops with practitioners from different regions of the world, we have learned that a major obstacle in transborder investigations is the lack of information on focal points and counterparts in other countries. In the worst case, investigations come to an end in the wheels of unanswered mutual legal assistance requests. We hope that the direct contact between counterparts in an early stage of the investigations may overcome these obstacles and pave the path to initiate official and straightforward investigations in cross-border cases. |
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What are your most common obstacles for the effective prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of illicit firearms trafficking and related crimes? Are you missing a piece of information? Through our worldwide activities, the Global Firearms Programme can connect you to fellow practitioners who may have the solution!
The Global Firearms Programme has established a roster of national and international practitioners to foster connections and knowledge sharing among practitioners performing law enforcement, criminal justice and firearms control functions within their respective institutions. Our new Ask the Expert feature will allow direct contacts and cooperation among practitioners and provide a platform for sharing expert advice on specific firearms related matters. In the long term, even the development of a secure communication platform is envisaged, connecting practitioners all over the world with a mouse click only.
Our new Ask the Expert feature is completely free and easy to use. Simply click the “Ask the Expert” button at the top of the page and send us your question. If you are looking for a contact to carry on with your investigation, we will try to connect you to practitioners relevant for your case. If you are lacking general information, we will select a topic to be featured in the next issue of our newsletter so that your question can help other firearms control and criminal justice professionals just like you.
