A/HRC/28/68/Add.3 joined civilian security forces and an army-trained police force has been created. This threatens the principles that must govern law enforcement and the guarantees of detainees. A. Torture and ill-treatment 23. Torture and ill-treatment are generalized in Mexico. The Special Rapporteur received many credible complaints from victims, family members and their representatives and persons deprived of their liberty and was informed of a number of already documented cases that point to the frequent use of torture and ill-treatment in various parts of the country by municipal, state and federal police, state and federal ministerial police and the armed forces. Most victims are detained for alleged links with organized crime. This situation is exacerbated by the state of exception suspending the constitutional and legal rights of detainees with alleged links to organized crime, which includes arraigo detention, pretrial detention without formal charges and the ability of the Public Prosecution Service to extend the period during which a person is detained or held before being brought before a judge. 24. It is difficult to know the real number of cases of torture. At present, there is no national register of cases and each state has its own data. Moreover, many cases are not reported out of fear of reprisals or distrust of the authorities and there is a tendency to classify acts of torture and ill-treatment as less serious offences. The number of reports and complaints is also very high. The National Human Rights Commission reported receiving 11,608 complaints of torture and ill-treatment between 2006 and April 2014. The Federal District Human Rights Commission received 386 complaints of torture between February 2011 and February 2014. Civil society organizations reported more than 500 documented cases between 2006 and 2014. Although there may be some duplication, these numbers are worrying. 25. Torture is used mainly from the moment when a person is detained until he is brought before the judicial authority, its purpose being to punish and to extract confessions or incriminating information. In 2012, according to a survey by the Centre for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE), 57.2 per cent of detainees in federal centres said that they had been beaten during their detention and 34.6 per cent said that they had been forced to sign or alter a confession. Consistently, an alarming number of detainees interviewed claimed to have been tortured after being detained. At the Federal Investigation Centre, where arraigo detainees are held, almost everyone interviewed claimed to have been subjected to torture and ill-treatment before entering the Centre. 26. The Special Rapporteur observed disturbing similarities among testimonies. Generally speaking, people report having been detained by individuals dressed as civilians, sometimes hooded, who drive unmarked cars, do not have an arrest warrant and do not give the reasons for the arrest. When people are arrested at home, such individuals generally enter the home without a warrant and property is damaged and stolen. During their arrest, people are hit, insulted and threatened. They are blindfolded and driven to unknown locations, including military bases, where the torture continues, consisting of a combination of: punches, kicks and beatings with sticks; electric shocks through the application of electrical devices such as cattle prods to their bodies, usually their genitals; asphyxiation with plastic bags; waterboarding; forced nudity; suspension by their limbs; threats and insults. Occasionally, days go by without anyone being informed of the detainee’s whereabouts or without the detainee being brought before the ministerial police or judicial authority. Victims have often been paraded before the media as criminals without having been convicted; this in itself constitutes degrading treatment. 27. The Special Rapporteur was told of cases where victims had died as a result of being tortured and cases where torture occurs in conjunction with extrajudicial executions and GE.14-25288 7