As part of its pilot Course for Interdicting Small Arms in Postal Shipments (ISAPS), UNLIREC, in collaboration with the Dominican Postal Institute (INPOSDOM) and the Ministry of Defense, and with funding from Germany, held the second edition of its Course for Interdicting Small Arms in Postal Shipments (ISAPS) from 13 - 17 November 2017 in the Dominican Republic.
The scope of the course was to provide training, either through an online platform or on-site, to improve the capacity of practitioners in relation to their interpretation of x-ray images and identification of possible concealment methods. The participants, on which these two different methodologies were tested, were officials from the INPOSDOM, the General Directorate of Customs, the Ministry of Defense, the Specialized Body for Port Security (CESEP), the Specialized Body in Airport Security and Civil Aviation (CESAC), the National Department of Investigations (DNI) and the National Directorate for the Control of Drugs (DNCD) participated in the course.