CAT/OP/MEX/1/Add.2 • Upon inmates’ admission, provision of a copy of the prison regulations, which set out their rights and obligations during their term of incarceration, and of the visiting handbook, in which the requirements for visitors’ admission are specified; • Application of the Istanbul Protocol in the preparation of medical treatment and injury reports; • Provision of training for operational, technical and administrative personnel by the State Human Rights Commission; • Requests for increases in operational and technical staffing levels; • Installation, in strategic and prominent locations accessible by the general public, of large, clear and understandable notices concerning the reporting of acts of torture, stating that any irregularities by prison personnel should be reported and indicating to whom such reports have to be made. V. Complaints recorded by the national preventive mechanism during 2011 A. Initial visits to places of detention 226. Although the national preventive mechanism submits its own information to the Subcommittee, it should be noted that, between January and December 2011, personnel from the national preventive mechanism carried out 61 initial visits to places of detention in the states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Guerrero, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tlaxcala, Veracruz and Zacatecas. 227. The national preventive mechanism also concluded eight general cooperation agreements on torture prevention with the human rights agencies of Chihuahua, Mexico state, Guanajuato, Nayarit, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Tlaxcala and Veracruz. 228. As a result of the visits made during the previous year, 10 reports were issued in 2011 and presented to the governments and municipal authorities of the states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Colima, Nayarit and Puebla. Those reports referred to a total of 2,565 irregularities in connection with the right to humane and dignified treatment, the right to due process and legal certainty, the right to health care, the right to personal integrity and the human rights of vulnerable groups. B. Follow-up visits 229. In that period 530 visits were made to places of detention in the Federal District and the states of Aguascalientes, Campeche, Coahuila, Durango, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, Jalisco, Sinaloa, Tabasco, Tamaulipas and Yucatán to review the most recent measures taken with respect to the irregularities noted in the 23 reports issued during the period from 2007 to 2010 (recommendations). 230. As a consequence of the foregoing, the national preventive mechanism issued a concluding report to the authorities concerned, setting out the situation regarding follow-up of the irregularities detected, and a report on the irregularities still in existence, which will be monitored in the course of ensuing visits. 66 GE.13-41196 (EXT)