CAT/OP/MEX/1/Add.2 Budgetary outlay for training in the Office of the Attorney-General of the Republic Public servants Item of expenditure 2011 (January-December) 2012 (January-April) 37.9 8.4 Total3 15 501 Support for training public servants 4.3 1.3 33 401 Services for training public servants 33.6 7.1 133. As part of the steps taken by the Ministry of Defence to prevent the perpetration of acts of torture, a workshop course on forensic investigation and documentation for purposes of application of the Istanbul Protocol has been included in its programme on promoting and strengthening human rights and international humanitarian law. 134. Within the priority themes of the programme, various courses, lectures and talks aimed at torture prevention and eradication are provided for all military personnel on topics relating to the Federal Act on the Prevention and Punishment of Torture and the Istanbul Protocol. These are supplemented by other subjects, including the following: • What is torture? • An analysis of cases in which military personnel have been reported as suspected perpetrators of acts of torture; • The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and other international human rights instruments concerned with the prevention and eradication of torture; • The Istanbul Protocol for medical military personnel; • Torture prevention measures. 135. On the form used for routine medical examinations of inmates at military prisons the Ministry of Defence has since September 2009 included a space for recording current health status and any history of exposure to violence. 136. The training activities described below have also been conducted by the Ministry of Defence in the area of torture prevention. (a) Training was provided during 2010 for 8,882 employees at the following events: (i) A lecture for judicial military police personnel on the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, other international human rights instruments concerned with the prevention and eradication of torture and the Federal Act on the Prevention and Punishment of Torture, attended by 45 persons; (ii) A lecture on searches, arrests, unlawful detention and abuse of authority (torture, incommunicado detention, threats, injuries and killings) for personnel of the Presidential General Staff, attended by 157 persons; (iii) Three workshop courses on medical examination and documentation of torture cases and forensic investigation of deaths suspected of being the result of 3 42 Millions of pesos. GE.13-41196 (EXT)