INTERPOL National Awareness Workshop on Illicit Firearms for Sudan
On 8-9 May 2018, INTERPOL organized a National Awareness Workshop on Illicit Firearms for Sudan. Participants included 42 officers from different Police’s departments, Women Association, National Commission of Disarmament and the Sub-regional Arms Control Mechanism (SARCOM). The objective of the meeting was to raise public awareness on illicit firearms challenges and on how to populate and use the INTERPOL illicit Arms Records and tracing Management System (iARMS) in preventing and combating against the scourge of transnational organized crimes.
Funded by the European Union, the INTERPOL Illicit Arms Records and tracing Management System (iARMS) is a platform that facilitates information exchange and investigative cooperation between law enforcement agencies in relation to the international movement of illicit firearms. Countries are encouraged to upload records of lost and stolen firearms in iARMS. Consequently, in the case of a recovered firearm, the database is queried and the country can identify when and where the firearm was diverted into illegal possession. Shall the query not generate a positive result, the user can send a request to the country of manufacture, country of last legal import (if marked on the firearm) and to any country that may be connected to the case.
