The General Police Inspectorate (GPI) is the administrative authority subordinated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which ensures, in accordance with the law, the implementation of state policies in the field of maintaining, ensuring and restoring public order and security, protecting the rights and legitimate interests of the individuals and community, investigation and discovery of crimes and contraventions, administration of justice, provides assistance to the population and local public, administration authorities. GPI represents the central unit of administration and control of the Police, with the status of legal person under public law, having competence throughout the Republic of Moldova. The GPI has the mission of coordinating and organizing activities aimed for the implementation of measures destinated to maintain public order and security, in order to increase the safety of citizens, streamline the process of preventing and combating crime, identifying and countering attacks on life, liberty, health and the integrity of persons, to private and public property, and to other legitimate interests of the community. GPI ensures the accomplishment of the functions established by his Regulation in the following fields of activity: 1) maintaining, ensuring and restoring public order and security, protecting the rights and legitimate interests of the person and the community; 2) prevention of crimes and contraventions; 3) investigation of crimes and contraventions, as well as criminal prosecution; 4) ensuring the administration of justice; 5) assistance of the population and local public administration authorities; 6) organizing the activity of the Police. Partnership: In order to ensure the fulfillment of the missions established for GPI, in cooperation with international partners and institutions as EUROPOL, INTERPOL and with a big number of law enforcement authorities from other states such as Romania, Poland, Greece, Belgium, Germany, etc. At the national level, GPI cooperate with structures such as The Security and Intelligence Service, General Inspectorate of Border Police, General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, State Protection and Guard Service of Moldova, General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Moldova, the General Inspectorate of Carabinieri, National Institute of Justice, Central Probation Office, State Ecological Inspectorate, National Environmental Center, Main State Tax Inspectorate of Moldova, the Department of Penitentiary Institutions of the Ministry of Justice, etc. There are a number of collaboration agreements signed between GPI, civil society and other similar institutions. (https://politia.md/ro/advanced-page-type/parteneriate-cu-societatea-civila) Also, GPI work in close cooperation with numerous universities and research institutes, NGOs from the Republic of Moldova and from other states. GPI' s role in the project- final beneficiary. GPI is a Police authority, represented with National Investigative Inspectorate of GPI, National Inspectorate of Public Security of GPI - The Forensic and Judicial Expertise Centre of GPI, Project management department of GPI and Information analysis department of GPI. In order to tackle the issue of cross- border illicit trafficking in firearms, GPI foresees the coordinated action and collaboration of its listed departments/units. The results to be accomplished by the project are foreseen to significantly strengthen the operational capacity and capability of GPI to address challenges in the field of firearms trafficking. Use-case involvement: GPI will participate in use case #3 ‘Firearms purchase οn dark Web marketplaces’ and use case #4 ‘Mail order and courier service firearms trafficking detection using scanning technologies’