CAT/C/39/2 page 40 6. Pre-trial detention centres and police stations (delegacias) 167. The number of pre-trial detainees is very high. According to the information provided by the Secretary for Penitentiary Administration of São Paulo, this is due to the large number of arrests, which in the State of São Paulo amount to 1,000 each month. The prison population of São Paulo under the Secretary for Penitentiary Administration is almost 120,000, while pre-trial detainees amount to almost 35,000; 51.17 per cent of the prison population has access to work, 23.82 per cent has access to education and the remaining prison population (25.01 per cent) does not carry out any activity. 168. It was acknowledged to the Committee members that police stations should not accommodate prisoners. The Delegacias de policia participativa in São Paulo, or delegacias legais in Rio de Janeiro, are police stations without public jails which replaced the existing police lock-ups. The procedure now should be that when a suspect is arrested, he/she would be taken to this type of delegacia where his/her identity would be established and a preliminary investigation would take place. Afterwards, he/she would be taken to a “custody house” to be further questioned. Both the Secretary for Penitentiary Administration of São Paulo and the Deputy-Secretary of Public Security of the State of São Paulo gave their assurances that all police stations with jails would be decommissioned by the end of September 2005. The Deputy-Secretary of Public Security of the State of São Paulo also informed the Committee members that there were still 16 police districts with public jails, while 56 have already been decommissioned. 169. According to the Chief of the civil police in Rio de Janeiro, there are a total of 166 police stations in the State of Rio de Janeiro, out of which 83 are delegacias legais; 5,500 detainees are held in police stations, under the authority of the civil police. The total prison population of Rio de Janeiro is 26,000. The State provides 700 reais per month per detainee. 170. The Deputy-Secretary of Social Defence of Minas Gerais expressed concern that there were up to 25,000 detainees in the State, with up to 17,000 in delegacias; whereas they could only accommodate 8,000 detainees. He indicated that more jails were being built, and many more would be needed. He wished to decommission all delegacias with detainees and ensure that all delegacias were now built without cells, especially in the interior of the state. 171. The Secretary for Human Rights and Justice of the State of Bahia indicated that there were 11,000 detainees in Bahia, 6,000 in the hands of justice and 5,000 in delegacias under the custody of the police. The state spends 1,200 reais per month per detainee. 7. Training of law enforcement officials 172. The Committee members were informed of the efforts being made to train law enforcement officials on human rights. The United Nations Development Programme and the British Embassy had collaborated in the provision of trainings and in the elaboration of a manual for prison officials. A curriculum matrix for police training has also been created. The Committee did not receive parallel information concerning training plans for guards in centres for juvenile detention.