8 April 2021, Jahorina, Bosnia and Herzegovina: The UNODC's Global Firearms Programme (GFP) organized a workshop for the Postal Operators in BiH - BH Pošta, Pošta Srpske and Hrvatska Pošta Mostar - to review the draft Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the detection of firearms, their parts and ammunition in postal and fast courier parcels. The draft SOPs have been developed by the GFP on the basis of the Gap and Needs Analysis (GNA) conducted in 2020.
During the workshop, UNODC GFP underlined the importance of developing and adopting a common set of rules for processing the mail traffic and highlighted specific aspects of the draft SOPs. The three Postal Agencies’ representatives highlighted the added value of draft SOPs to their workflows and stressed the need for more frequent mutual meetings that help better communications.
The financial support for this activity is provided under the Western Balkans SALW Control Roadmap Multi-Partner Trust Fund by Germany, UK, Netherlands, France, Sweden and Norway.
