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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