A/HRC/4/40/Add.2 page 22 (e) Urgent measures appear necessary to ensure that any violation of detainees’ human rights is immediately and properly investigated and that any official or employee found responsible is subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts, and not the special parallel system of justice for the military and police; (f) The overcrowding in police cells, pretrial detention centres and social rehabilitation centres must be appropriately remedied, in particular by making use of alternative measures to detention and by avoiding the placement of pretrial detainees in police cells; (g) Special attention should be paid to the situation of children in conflict with the law. The practice of holding minors together with adults in police cells and at pretrial detention centres should be avoided. Any claims by detainees that they are minors must be responded to immediately, and such persons should be placed under the authority of the Prosecutor for Juvenile Offenders. It should be recalled that the pretrial detention of minors must be used only exceptionally and as a last resort; (h) The Government and public policies should be inspired by the principles and norms contained in the Constitution and international human rights instruments ratified by Ecuador and in the national human rights plan. The human rights of detainees must be respected, even in situations in which there is public pressure or calls by the media for more severe criminal legislation and tougher policies against crime. -----