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75% of homicides in LAC region w/firearms Involves Organized Crime, gangs and common crime

The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ensuring proper integration of small arms control and nonproliferation measures into efforts to combat Transnational Organized Crime

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75% of homicides in LAC region w/firearms Involves Organized Crime, gangs and common crime

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  1. The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Ensuring proper integration of small arms control and nonproliferation measures into efforts to combat Transnational Organized Crime OAS Meeting of National Authorities on Transnational Orgnanized Crime Washington, D.C. 24/25 April 2014 Brussels, May 2012

  2. Background • 75% of homicides in LAC region w/firearms • Involves Organized Crime, gangs and common crime • Transnational illicit trafficking • Falsified shipping and end-user documents • Hidden in commercial cargo containers and transport • Ant trade across borders • Internal domestic illicit ‘trafficking’ • Theft and diversion from state and private arsenals • Straw purchases (*ammunition)

  3. Synergies between international arms control and disarmament instruments and TOC frameworks • UN Programme of Action on Small Arms (2001) • Preamble – link to CTOC and Firearms Protocol • Article III.15 – assistance linked to TOC frameworks • International Tracing Instrument (2005) • Preamble – link to CTOC and Firearms Protocol • Article III.8.b – marking of imported weapons • Arms Trade Treaty (2013) • Preamble – link to CTOC and Firearms Protocol • Includes ammunition, parts and components • Article 7.1.iv – Export Assessment (organized crime) • Articles 9 -11 – Transshipment, Brokering and Diversion • UNSC Resolution 1540*

  4. Small arms control and nonproliferation toolkit of national measures that support efforts to combat TOC Reduce supply of weapons and ammunition available to illicit actors & increase cost of armed violence

  5. Stockpile Management • How? • ISACS and IATG • Record-keeping • Marking and tracing • Enforcing safety and security measures • Objective • Reduce TOC access to state stockpiles of weapons and ammunition • UNLIREC assistance to date • Argentina (w/MinSeg and 4 Federal forces) • Dominican Republic (Armed Forces) • Guatemala (judicial holdings) • CARICOM States (all 13 Member States) • Peru (Ministry of Interior)

  6. Objectives • Avoid re-entry of weapons into illicit channels • Permanently reduce number of weapons in illicit circulation Weapons Destruction • How? • ISACS and IATG (SOPs) • Providing technical equipment • Supporting and monitoring destructions • UNLIREC assistance to date • > 250 officials trained (SOPs, ISACS, IATG) • 60,000 weapons and 70 tonnes of ammunition destroyed since 2010 in Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Dominican Republic and 13 CARICOM Member Stats

  7. Objectives • Ensure robust legal frameworks and public policies to combat illicit weapons and ammunition trafficking Legal and Policy Frameworks • How? • Review of bills of law (dictums) • Specialized training for judges, prosecutors and other legal practitioners • UNLIREC assistance to date • Targeted legal advice to Barbados, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela • > 20 national and regional seminars and • Support to national small arms control commissions in Guatemala, Ecuador and Peru

  8. Objective • Ensure security and justice sectors have tools, knowledge and capacities to intercept, control and trace illicit weapons within TOC frameworks Security Sector Capacity-building • How? • Specialized trainings for security and justice sector personnel • - investigative techniques (IITC) • - forensic ballistics • - evidence management • - marking & tracing • - border surveillance and interventions • maritime security contexts • Achievements to date • < 1,800 officers trained since 2009 (25% women) • in 15 countries • < Colombia/Ecuador border training • integration with UNODC container search in T&T

  9. UNLIREC stands ready… • To continue working with partners to ensure small arms control and nonproliferation efforts are central in international, regional and national efforts to combat TOC • To accelerate efforts to combat TOC through deployment our rapid response team of bilingual trainers and technical specialists in small arms control and nonproliferation • To installimmediate capabilities for sustainable implementation of sub-regional and national frameworks to combat TOC in the Caribbean, Central and South America • To continue supporting synergies with other relevant cooperation frameworks, in particular those related to enhancing maritime and port security to prevent terrorist access to weapons of mass destruction and dual-use goods

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