CAT/OP/PRY/2/Add.1 50. The complaints received are then sent to the Public Prosecution Service to be investigated, where necessary, at the judicial level as well as at the administrative level. 51. The Human Rights Directorate regularly monitors both the administrative and the criminal investigations in order to update complainants on the proceedings, if they so request, and to inform them of the eventual outcome of their complaint. This allows the complainant to follow the progress and outcome of the proceedings and means that the case cannot be shelved and the outcome kept from the complainant. (ix) Weapons for police personnel (para. 31) 52. With regard to the recommendation on supplying firearms to police officers, steps have been taken to provide service weapons to cadets who have recently graduated from police academies, in accordance with the following instruction: “Commissioned and noncommissioned national police officers shall be issued with the weapons, ammunition and vests referred to in the previous article upon graduation from police training institutes.” When the current Administration took office, the Ministry of the Interior began issuing service weapons to new police recruits. To date, the police force has issued 1,844 weapons, thereby putting an end to the practice of having law enforcement officers purchase their firearms themselves. 53. The above-mentioned weapons have been registered with the Directorate of War Materials, which comes under the Ministry of Defence and is responsible for registering weapons at the State level. The weapons are also being registered with the Weapons and Ammunition Department of the National Police, and supplement the 8,977 weapons already in use. (x) Judiciary (para. 32) 54. The Supreme Court of Justice has supplied information on the new members of its Criminal Division. A copy of Agreement No. 667 of 8 February 2011, which appoints the three members needed to complete the membership, is attached (annex IV). Over time, this measure will alleviate the shortage of personnel and thus reduce the court’s backlog. (xi) Transfers of persons deprived of their liberty (para. 33) 55. There are real differences of opinion with respect to this recommendation. Enforcement judges claim that they are the only State officials who can authorize the transfer of persons deprived of their liberty from one prison to another. The Supreme Court of Justice suggests that the current regulations should be reviewed and a dialogue organized for actors from the penal and prison system in order to reach a reasonable solution to this specific problem. Meetings have been held at the highest level between officials from the Supreme Court of Justice and the Ministry of Justice and Labour to assess the situation and discuss different strategies to tackle the problem. They came to the conclusion that an interinstitutional working group should be established to draw up a set of guidelines. Both organizations are currently busy organizing the working group. 56. The Ministry of Justice and Labour reported that most prisons, except those in Tacumbú and Ciudad del Este, have begun to separate accused from convicted inmates. (xii) Public Defender Service (para. 41) 57. It is important to note that the Organization Act on the Public Defender Service (Defensa Pública) obtained partial approval in December 2010. This measure is a crucial step forward and shows that there is the political will to legislate to establish conditions in which the Public Defender Service can carry out its mandate more efficiently and increase its legitimacy in the eyes of the public. This will help society to see the usefulness and 8 GE.11-43459