4 LAW-ENFORCEMENT EQUIPMENT IN CENTRAL ASIA AND THE SOUTH CAUCASUS identification resource, highlighting equipment of particular concern, and partly as a provision of recommendations for the use of certain devices. Chapter 2 highlights the specific equipment categories of concern, of relevance to the regions being studied. Chapter 3 evaluates the current state of national, regional and international controls on the trade in law-enforcement equipment. Chapter 4 gives information on manufacturers, exporters and known transfers in and to Central Asia and the South Caucasus.12 Chapter 5 focuses on the provision of equipment and training by external actors—an area of increasing interest. Chapter 6 looks at three case studies of relevance to the discussions highlighted in this paper: focusing on Armenia, Georgia and Kazakhstan in order to demonstrate some particular concerns surrounding equipment transfers and deployment in those countries. Finally, Chapter 7 gives recommendations in relation to controlling the trade and deployment of certain technologies, in the hope that they can be used as the basis for further studies on law-enforcement technologies in the region and beyond. 12 All data is drawn from open source material. It should be noted that the reference to any companies and/or their products in this report are for illustrative purposes only. The authors do not mean to imply that companies mentioned have broken any laws or acted in an improper fashion.

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