307. The SPT encourages the State party to maintain and step up measures to prevent torture and other ill-treatment, as part of a comprehensive State policy. This work should be accompanied by extensive public awareness campaigns on the prevention of torture and ill-treatment, and information campaigns on how and where to report cases. It further recommends that the State party should undertake to provide human rights training to prison staff. 308. The SPT requests the State party to carry out a prompt and impartial investigation into all allegations of torture and ill-treatment, including sexual violence, in accordance with articles 12 and 13 of the Convention against Torture. In cases where those allegations involve prison staff, the staff members should be suspended from duty for the duration of the trial, and dismissed from the service if they are found guilty. 309. The SPT recommends that the State party should set up an effective, confidential and independent complaints system in all prisons. Each prison should keep a register of complaints, which should include information on the complainant ’ s identity, the nature of the complaint, the action taken, and the outcome of the complaint. Neuropsychiatric hospital 310. The SPT recommends that patients are given greater opportunity to take part in rehabilitation activities. 311. The SPT also recommends that all patients are given lockers in which to store their personal effects. B.Requests for information 312. The SPT wishes to receive information from the State party on the following: (a) The number of complaints of torture or ill-treatment received by the National Police against its members in the last five years, as well as the present status of those reports, including the disciplinary measures taken; (b) The specific way in which it plans, within a framework of institutional independence and autonomy, to increase the human and financial resources of the Office of the Public Defender to enable it to guarantee free, effective and comprehensive legal assistance for all persons deprived of their liberty who require it, as from the moment of their detention; (c) The way in which the Public Prosecutor ’ s Office in practice discharges its supervisory functions with regard to both police stations and prisons. In particular, it wishes to have information on the frequency with which visits to these premises take place, whether there are any internal guidelines on how these visits are to be carried out, whether reports of the observations made during the visits are produced and, as appropriate, to whom such reports are submitted, and the number of complaints made by the Public Prosecutor ’ s Office as a consequence of these visits; (d) The development and implementation of the work referred to in paragraph 149; (e) Progress made in establishing a health promotion system under the supervision of prisoners (see paragraph 180), and in particular on the control of infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis; (f) The definitive closure of the solitary confinement wing at Tacumbú National Prison and the progress of the works and the estimated date of opening of the new solitary confinement cells; (g) Whether the facilities referred to in paragraph 190 have in fact been repaired, as the SPT was promised; (h) The annual budget for food allocated to the General Directorate of Prisons, disaggregated by prison. The SPT would also like to receive clarifications on measures adopted to ensure the transparent and efficient use of the budget; (i) What has been done to prevent reprisals against detainees who provided information to the SPT. 313. The SPT wishes to receive a copy of: (a) The last three quarterly reports that the Prison Supervision Unit is required to submit to the Supreme Court under article 2 of Agreement No. 30; (b) The directives of the Supreme Court concerning the rights to due process of persons deprived of their liberty; (c) The draft law on the public defenders system, together with information on the state of progress on this draft; (d) The punishment regulations as well as more detailed information on the procedure for imposing punishments and the authority responsible for ordering them. Annex I List of senior officials and others with whom the delegation met A.National authorities Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez, President of the Republic