During visual search procedures, ground signs may lead to the suspicion of EO (see Chapter 4 – IED indicators and ground sign awareness). The identification and assessment of these signs is a defined skill and should be a competency, trained and tested for MA staff involved in identifying IED contamination. The recording and reporting of IED detection using ground signs can aid significantly in sharing good practice and increases efficiency, effectiveness and safety across the MA sector.
ׁ HINT. If reports include photographs and consistent terminology, they will assist in the accessibility and common understanding of how ground signs can aid in IED detection.
4.2.2. LEGAL REQUIREMENTS FOR IM AND REPORTING FOR CONVENTIONS NMAAs will be required by international humanitarian law to gather information on EO for the purpose of reporting to the various international conventions to which they are a party. In particular, this includes the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC), the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). As a result, the national framework for reporting – and related reporting formats – will need to be considered by organisations when establishing their own reporting formats and requirements for operators. For example, some IEDs can and do meet the definition of an anti-personnel mine that is found in the APMBC:
“A munition designed to be placed under, on or near the ground or other surface area and to be exploded by the presence, proximity or contact of a person or vehicle.”
Due to the fact that IED is a very broad term, referring only to the way in which the device has been constructed (using artisanal methods instead of being manufactured in a formal sector factory), the term describes a range of weapons spanning from improvised rockets and mortars to improvised anti- personnel mines and remotely-controlled devices.
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