Situation during visit (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) Steps taken in previous years (to be found in A/HRC/7/3/Add.2, Information received in the reporting A/HRC/10/44/Add.5 and A/HRC/16/52/Add.2) period 2009, between the PSD and the NCHR for the purpose of facilitating its role in conducting unannounced visits to all rehabilitation centres in the kingdom. Prior to that, a human rights office related to the NCHR was established at Souagha Rehabilitation Centre. Amendments to the law, pertaining to correctional facilities and rehabilitation centres n° 9 of 2004, have been proposed that include provisions on the conditional release system, as well as provision to further facilitate visits and periodic inspection of these centres. The Minister of Justice or his delegates has the power to carry out visits at any given time to correctional facilities to ensure the implementation of court decisions. Non-governmental sources: The Optional Protocol has not been ratified, but the NCHR conducts unannounced visits to places of detention, in cooperation with the PSD, as a preventive measure. (y) Systematic training The Government informed it - Training sessions for judges in the Judicial programmes and awareness-raising promotes human rights Institute emphasize the need to combat torture in campaigns be carried out on the concepts through awareness- prisons. Prosecutors, together with judges, have principles of the Convention raising programmes been trained by national and international NGOs against Torture for the public at disseminated by the media and on the Convention against Torture and on juvenile large, security personnel, legal recently incorporated these justice matters; professionals and the judiciary. concepts into the academic - Several training workshops have been carried out curricula. In various meetings by the National Human Rights Centre. with government officials the Special Rapporteur found a Government: The Convention against Torture lack of awareness of the was disseminated among the members of security seriousness of torture. forces who were instructed to adhere to its provisions and include its articles in their training courses. A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 162 Recommendation (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3)