Joint Arms Control Implementation Group


The Joint Arms Control Implementation Group is a specialist defence component affiliated to UK Joint Forces Command; which carries out a range of arms control and verification functions. JACIG was originally based at RAF Scampton ; established in 1990, it was declared by the MOD as operational on 1 January 1991. Originally it was formed to performing treaty associated tasks as part of the UK's commitment to post Cold War confidence building associated with the Vienna Document and the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. Its operating base is currently RAF Henlow in Bedfordshire.
JACIG's first Commandant and main architect of the unit's structure and method of operations was Colonel Roy Giles. Giles was a veteran of BRIXMIS. The unit's personnel are drawn from all three UK armed services and the MOD civil service.
JACIG has carried out the following duties since its inception and continues to play an active role in constructive disarmament:
As well as carrying site inspections, unit and area visits to confirm the correct reporting or destruction of treaty limited equipment, JACIG also provides escorts to incoming foreign counterpart organisations. The unit has also become more involved in the setting up and implementation of treaties and agreements to destroy and imit the use of small arms and light weapons.