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Customised for your agency, your country

As arms control systems vary from country to country, ArmsTracker offers a version for each type of state agency. These are then tailored to fit each government department, its governing legislation and practices.

Police

ArmsTracker is purpose-built for information-based policing, enforcement of weapon laws and prevention of firearm-related crime. Its database replaces manual-entry, station-by-station logbooks and spreadsheets with a computerised national register of service weapons, seized arms and privately held firearms. Police identify all officers and civilians authorised to possess an arm and can quickly register every weapon to a licensed officer or civilian. As each arms transfer is then tracked in real time for the life of every registered weapon, it becomes much easier for Police to prevent, detect and prosecute illegal possession, arms diversion and illicit trafficking. ArmsTracker also aids Police to licence arms dealers and brokers, authorise weapon imports and exports, trigger international tracing requests, follow up expired licences and recover associated costs.

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Customs

ArmsTracker was designed with experts who worked for years to develop the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). It simplifies and standardises Customs import/export procedures to comply with the ATT and other relevant international arms control instruments, maintains a register of arms and ammunition as they move through a Customs port and tracks transshipments and transfers to and from authorised importers and exporters. As many small island and developing states work to upgrade their border controls to comply with the ATT, ArmsTracker ensures that even inexperienced users record accurate transfers and generate reports which meet international obligations.

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Military

ArmsTracker is not designed to equal or to replace existing military asset tracking systems which typically include a wider range of equipment and matériel. Instead it provides a purpose-built weapon tracking solution for smaller militaries to maintain accurate, real-time accountability across their armouries and ammunition magazines. The tamper-protected database allocates responsibility for each weapon and batch of ammunition to a unit, rank or individual, greatly reducing the risk of diversion and trafficking. Commanders can set up one-touch reports to deliver selected data to headquarters or for central government oversight. ArmsTracker is also an ideal, and highly credible tool to demonstrate compliance with regional arms control regimes and UN Security Council sanctions.

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Executive

ArmsTracker can be configured to automatically send reports or alerts when risk thresholds are reached, or when events occur. The state can set up software permissions on its own network which allow oversight officials to access real-time reports of selected data, perhaps in read-only format, without waiting for approval. This guarantees timely intelligence and eliminates delays inherent in multi-agency information exchange.

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Foreign Affairs

ArmsTracker enables Foreign Affairs, the agency usually responsible for reporting under a range of international instruments such as the Arms Trade Treaty, the UN Register of Conventional Arms and the UN small arms Programme of Action, to reduce or eliminate delays in gathering the necessary information. Without sharing other confidential data, each agency can automatically anonymise and make available the short summary required for international compliance. Across all government departments, ArmsTracker reports conform to the same global standards and can be accurately compared. Recent years have seen a decrease in the rate of international reporting on conventional arms. States using ArmsTracker can more easily meet the obligations of the treaties and agreements to which they contribute, while at the same time reduce their own reporting loads.

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Community

ArmsTracker is available only to national governments and their agencies. However, as some countries require a community reporting system to collect tips about illicit arms, these contributions are stored separately. Public participation can play an important role in alerting authorities to suspected diversion of illicit arms and the location of weapons, often directly to Police or via anonymous tip lines such as Crime Stoppers. These community reports are processed, and if possible actioned by the appropriate agencies.

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