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
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