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297. The Plan foresees preventive action in order to make aggressors answerable and to
receive, assist, protect and compensate victims. The following punitive actions have been
provided for:
(a) Declaration against torture by the high echelons, making clear that there is no room
for this practice in the political structure of the institution. Commitment to adopt effective
measures for the repression of torture. Articulation with state and federal governments for the
signature of a document repudiating torture and commitment to its eradication. Wide publicity in
the media. To be attentive to events that may promote declarations by public security officials
and incentives for them to do so, especially when news about torture appear in the press;
(b) To link federal financing of and penal and police facilities to the existence of
structure and programs to secure respect to the rights of detainees;
(c) Create and distribute a basic library of documents, studies, research and national and
international manuals regarding the integrity of the institutions of the Criminal Justice System
with special attention to the prevention and control of torture;
(d) Develop studies, research and manuals about the integrity of institutions in the
Criminal Justice System with special attention to the prevention and control of torture;
(e) Develop a module on human rights and torture to be applied in formative schools for
police officers and penitentiary agents. Hire specialists to create didactic material on the matte.
To establish training courses for police and penitentiary instructors. To evaluate the impact of the
module on the students, in association with the police and penitentiary academies;
(f) Create a data bank with good practices for the prevention and control of torture.
To make wide dissemination of that intention in order to collect data and insert them in the
Internet;
(g) Create a “Dial Human Rights” number, using the progress achieved by the SOS
Torture and correcting its defects, analyzing for this end the experience of the “Dial Sexual
Exploitation” and similar systems to receive and deal with denunciations and complaints on the
institutions of the Criminal Justice Systems existing in other countries;
(h) Classify existing data and information and integrate data banks and information on
the structure and operation of the institutions of the Criminal Justice System;
(i) Offer conditions and incentives for the agencies responsible for the monitoring of
places of deprivation of liberty to comply with the law. Judges and members of the Public
Prosecutor’s Office have legal competence to make monthly inspections. For other agencies
(Penitentiary Council, National Criminal and Penitentiary Policy Council, Community Council,
National Penitentiary Department, for Penal Execution, and Tutelage Councils, for the
institutions of internment of adolescents) there is no fixed schedule. At any rate, it is an essential
resource for the promotion of integrity in the Criminal Justice System and for the prevention of
torture that inspections can be carried out as often as possible, with no warning, with the
assurance that visitors can have direct access to the inmates and that contacts are confidential;
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