139.In the State of Mexico the basic manual for the judicial police was drafted and implemented. It is mandatory for staff of the service and obeys the principles of integrity and respect for human dignity, presumption of innocence, the right to a defence and the principle of adversarial proceedings. This manual illustrates the intervention of the judicial police in the case of criminal acts, owninitiative activities taken on the basis of injunctions or orders of the Prosecution Service, arrest by warrant, in flagrante delicto or in an emergency, among other topics. 140.Ongoing training on human rights is also being given, at the academy of the Department of Public Security of the municipality of Oaxaca de Juárez, to operational personnel by staff of the Commission for the Defence of Human Rights in the state of Oaxaca, who lay emphasis on the suggested topics. C.The following recommendations fall within specific objective 3 of the Action Plan Revise and update manuals and protocols for visits and procedures, including methodologies for assessing indicators of progress in the prevention of torture (para. 30) Compliance measures 141.The directors of the various detention centres in the Federal District have set up a card index of visits to keep track of the relatives of accused, indicted or convicted persons to enable them to enter the facilities without delay. 142.Also in the Federal District, the Executive Department of Prevention and Social Rehabilitation issued an operations manual on access to prisons, which specifies, among other things, the requirements applying to visitors to inmates, and lays down criteria for allowing or refusing visits. 143.Moreover, with the support of the Civic Audit Office, the screening area surveillance programme was resumed at prisons in the Federal District on visiting days, in order to reduce the risk of corrupt acts and abuses against visitors by public officials of the prison system. 144.In the state of Nuevo León a department of criminology was set up at the juvenile detention and rehabilitation centre to enhance the work of guiding and training the multidisciplinary technical team, and the Programme for Prevention and Comprehensive Care of Pregnancy in Adolescents (PAIDEA) of the National Scheme for the Comprehensive Development of the Family was launched. 145.The open school system of the state Ministry of Education was also introduced at primary and secondary level, separate from the National Institute of Adult Education, which was already operating at that facility. On 15 October 2010 the state of Baja California published in its Official Gazette the decision amending, supplementing and repealing certain provisions of the decision laying down institutional guidelines to be followed by public prosecutors, medical experts from the Department of Forensic Services, physicians chosen by detainees or inmates and other staff of the state prosecution service, for the application of the specialist medical and psychological report for possible cases of torture and/or abuse. 146.Consequently, several measures have been taken to implement the Istanbul Protocol in the state, which are progressing as follows: The state government of Baja California is developing a digitized form of the specialist medical and psychological opinion for cases of possible torture and/or abuse.This form has been sent to the print shop for final reproduction and subsequent distribution; It has holograms for sealing the envelopes, which will safeguard the opinions inside; The medical and psychological personnel were trained to examine persons who report being tortured and a new training programme on the same subject is currently being requested for expert services staff; On 11 January 2011 a talk was given on the subject for the staff of the Department for Victims and Witnesses of Crime; People outside the institution are currently being selected and investigated to sit on the Committees referred to in the decision; they will begin work in the first quarter of 2011; An information talk on the implementation of the Istanbul Protocol is planned for public prosecutors in the state, to be held in the office of each assistant attorney-general. 147.On this topic and in accordance with the General Act on the National Public Security System of Baja California, the Public S ecuri ty Act of Baja California was enacted and published in Official State Gazette No. 38 dated 21 August 2009, which enshrines the principles laid down in articles 18 and 21 of the Constitution of the United Mexican States, namely to lay the foundations for the application of the National Public Security System to establish the bases for coordination between the state and the municipalities, as well as to regulate the public security service, private security services and administrative relations between the members of the police institutions of the state of Baja California and central, state or municipal government offices, for the provision of their services, in line with article 123, paragraph B, section XIII of the Constitution of the United Mexican States; public security institutions must be civilian, disciplined and professional, and their activity is to be governed by the principles of legality, objectivity, efficiency, professionalism, honesty and respect for the rights recognized in our Constitution. 148.In the same vein Baja California published the Act o n State Security and Prison Police in the Official State Gazette on 24 September 2010, granting agents of the state security and prison police exclusive powers to guard the accused and maintain order