In September 2019, UNODC and INTERPOL conducted the pre-operational meeting followed by a firearms training in preparion for Operation KAFO involving Cote d'Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso. The Pre-operational training ensured that officers had the skills required to use INTERPOL’s operational capabilities and detect firearms trafficking in key strategic locations, particularly border crossings. In particularly, participants saw how INTERPOL’s iARMS and Firearms Reference Table (IFRT) capabilities enable them to identify and investigate firearms trafficking in the field. Trainees included experts from national commissions for the control of small arms and light weapons, gendarmerie, criminal investigations police and INTERPOL’s National Central Bureaus (NCB) from all three target countries.