firearms trafficking

Topic description

Scope:

Improved information sharing, research, data collection and analysis on the various aspects of firearms trafficking and gun crime are essential to compile a good intelligence picture and to keep up-to-date with evolving security needs. There is a need to improve the use of existing tools and assess possible synergies and interoperability between existing EU and international law enforcement databases to monitor the trafficking of firearms, inter alia by collecting, analysing and sharing relevant information. The call will support activities in the area of the fight against trafficking in firearms, aiming to facilitate joint initiatives and operational actions of EU countries associated with third partners; improve expertise in the area of firearms trafficking, in particular by enhancing knowledge, detection, investigation and prosecution at EU level and with key third countries; promote best practices inter alia concerning the defragmentation of the relevant information and intelligence along the firearms trafficking routes to and from the EU; safeguard the EU licit market as well as reduce diversion of firearms into criminal hands in the EU.