47 Portugal General Inspection of the Interior (IGAI). The IGAI is headed by an inspector-general, and assisted by a sub-inspector general and support staff. Human Rights Committee (HRC) The IGAI is an independent service for external control of police activity. It is under the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI) and its action covers all services and security forces that depend on it ensuring the observance of citizens' rights, with attention to the protection of human rights With relevance to police oversight HRC deals with the issues related to law observance and rule of law, courts, prosecutors, notarial services, the Bar and legal services, the prison system, functioning of the Bar and counsel societies, and issues related to human rights observance. of their freedoms or rights infringed by public authorities – including the police. In exercising this activity IGAI conducts regular inspections but also conducts enforcement actions The IGAI role is to enforce the laws with a view to the proper functioning of the government, the legitimate interests of citizens, the protection of the public interest and the reinstatement of those have been treated negatively. The individual complaint to the HRC may be brought by any individual who claims that his/her rights under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights have been violated as well as for reversal of a legally valid decision concerning an offence case; lodge cassation or an extraordinary appeal against a legally valid decision. IGAI implementation corresponded to the imperatives of the XIII Constitutional Government program, in point II Internal Affairs 2 - Security of citizens, point K): "Implementation of institutional solutions and procedures to ensure the area of Home Affairs, a more effective enforcement of legality, protection of rights and The complaint must be related to the infringement on the rights that has taken place after 7th February, 1992, i.e. the date of the ratification of the Protocol by Poland (unless the infringement was initiated by other events before this date, or the consequences of these events constitute the infringement)