CAT/OP/MEX/1/Add.2 180. The Oaxaca state government has conducted various courses on aspects of human rights for personnel of the State Investigation Agency, including topics such as human rights under the accusatorial system, police investigative techniques, the use of force and human rights, justice administration and human rights, and human rights during detention. The National Human Rights Commission, the Vocational Training and Development Institute and also the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of Oaxaca participated in the organization of these courses. 181. The Oaxaca Department of Public Security has a professional development institute which serves as a centre for training the state’s public security institutions in conformity with the standards set out in the professional development policy programme of the National Public Security System. This institute is responsible for executing plans and programmes and specifically their thematic content, for example the topic on the rational use of force, which is included in training courses for the state and municipal police forces and prison custody officers and also the initial training course. 182. The topic of combating torture is included in the course on human rights and gender equity provided for public security institutions. 183. With respect to skills upgrading programmes for prison staff, the Department of Public Security has held the following courses for security and custody officers at places of detention: • Human rights at social rehabilitation centres and controlling prison disturbances; • Criminology and prison systems; • Emergency psychological intervention in prisons; • PR-24 expandable baton and handcuffing techniques; • Internal security and prison population management; • Prison response teams; • Maintaining and restoring law and order; • Alternative dispute resolution measures; • Prisoner transport operations and drug detection in prisons; • Specialized security measures to meet juvenile offender treatment objectives; • Transferring high-risk prisoners; • Intervention strategies in prisons; • Identifying narcotic drugs; • Police self-defence techniques; and • Intervention techniques and tactics. 184. All these courses are conducted by the South-eastern Regional Academy of Public Security in the state of Veracruz. Also, a human rights workshop course on the use of force in police operations has been given by the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of Oaxaca. 185. In late January 2012 the Human Rights Coordination Office, in conjunction with ICRC, organized an awareness seminar on human rights and humanitarian principles applicable to the police service, which was attended by more than 30 officers from the State Investigation Agency of the Oaxaca Attorney-General’s Office and from divisions of the Department of Public Security, who received a total of over 25 hours’ related training. It is 58 GE.13-41196 (EXT)