Investigating the Role of Criminalistics in Detecting Arms and Ammunition Trafficking

Combating arms and ammunition trafficking is one of the important missions of the law enforcement force. Criminalistics is very important in this process. In regard to the complexity of the crime of arms and ammunition trafficking and the existence of certain problems in the process of investigating and detecting them, particularly in accessing to documents and documentations, the role of criminalistics science is very significant in throughout this process. This research is of applied type from type and objective standpoits and of descriptive-analytical type from nature standpoint and it deals with investigating criminalistics to detect arms and ammunition trafficking. To answer the research questions, all the existing documents and deeds related to the present subject have been collected using data collection forms and have been analyzed qualitatively. Many factors have been involved in various economic, socio-cultural, political-security and judicial measures in smuggling weapons and ammunition in the country, which in addition to having unfortunate consequences for the country requires the use of basic solutions to solve this problem at the national level. Criminalistics, as a modern science, uses technical tools to collect and discover evidence, record, investigate and regulate criminal investigations, therefore using it to identify, detect and prove weapons and ammunition trafficking isvery important as one of the missions of the police force using intelligence, operational and judicial measures.