Southern African Development Community a) co-ordinate national training programmes for police, customs and border guards, the judiciary and other agencies involved in preventing, combating and eradicating the illicit manufacturing of firearms, ammunition and other related materials and their excessive and destabilising accumulation, trafficking, possession and use; b) establish and improve national data-bases, communication systems and acquire equipment for monitoring and controlling the movement of firearms across borders; c) establish inter-agency working groups, involving police, military, customs, home affairs, foreign affairs and other relevant agencies, to improve policy co-ordination, information sharing and analysis at national level; and d) undertake joint training exercises for officials, from countries within the Region drawn from the police, customs and other relevant agencies, including the military where it is involved with border control, and explore the possibility for exchange programmes for such officials within the Region, and with their counterparts in other regions. ARTICLE 7 CONTROL OVER CIVILIAN POSSESSION OF FIREARMS State Parties undertake to consider a co-ordinated review of national procedures and criteria for issuing and withdrawing of firearm licences and establishing and maintaining national electronic databases of licensed firearms, firearm owners, and commercial firearms traders within their territories. ARTICLE 8 STATE-OWNED FIREARMS State Parties undertake to: a) establish and maintain complete national inventories of firearms, ammunition and other related materials held by security forces and other state bodies; b) enhance their capacity to manage and maintain secure storage of state owned firearms; Protocol on Control of Fire Arms, Ammunition and other related materials 7

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