CAT/OP/PRY/2/Add.1 81. These decisions include Decision No. 88/11, which amends article 15 of Decision No. 7/95 on the Disciplinary Regulations of the National Police and establishes courts and prosecutors’ offices specializing in human rights violations within the Directorate of Police Justice. 82. Pursuant to this decision, torture is considered a serious offence under the Disciplinary Regulations of the National Police. 83. The aforementioned plan to provide police personnel with standard training in human rights has a section focused exclusively on the prevention and punishment of the crime of torture. 7. (a) Prisons Closure of Tacumbú National Prison (para. 55) 84. On 4 April 2011, the Minister of Justice and Labour presented the President of the Republic with a plan for the phased-in closure of the prison. An official call for tenders for the construction of a new prison facility in Tacumbú has been issued, with four companies being prequalified to submit a design proposal. (b) Pasilleros (“corridor people”) (para. 56) 85. This problem will be solved primarily by the relocation of inmates, which will be undertaken in coordination with a working group, set up on 12 April 2011, consisting of representatives of the Ministry of Justice and Labour and members of the judiciary. 86. By the end of 2011, 1,500 further places will become available with the completion and construction of new prisons in San Juan, Pedro Juan Caballero, Emboscada and other sites. 87. (c) The long-term solution is to relocate all inmates of Tacumbú National Prison. Torture and ill-treatment 88. Nine complaints of torture within the prison system were filed in 2009, all of which were duly investigated. The sole confirmed case was that of disciplinary officer Federico Bustos Molinas (Esperanza factory prison), who physically assaulted prison inmate Anibal del Rosario Valiente Vazquez on 3 November 2009 and who was consequently dismissed from his prison post and reported to the Public Prosecution Service. 89. Other important related cases are: (a) the dismissal of disciplinary officers Ariel Alfonso Molas Candia and David Saul Gonzalez (employed by Empresa Boyerito S.A., who jointly run the Esperanza facility of the Ministry of Justice and Labour) for their assault on inmate Jorge Galeano on 13 September 2009; (b) the criminal complaint against nurse Avelina Fernandez (Esperanza facility) for allegedly modifying the dosage of controlled substances dispensed to inmates and for wrongful exercise of professional duties; (c) the criminal complaint against the guard Ronald Soloaga (National Prison) for an alleged physical assault on inmate Joel Benitez; (d) the call for the dismissal of staff members Silvio Mora and Cecilio Barros Genes (Esperanza facility) and the recommendation that a criminal complaint be filed against them for abuse of authority. 90. Likewise, the Office of the Deputy Minister of Justice and Human Rights is negotiating with civil society organizations with a view to improving the complaint mechanism for persons deprived of liberty and promoting action to inform inmates about their rights and about situations that ought to be, but are not, reported. Another important goal of this joint effort is to make it easier to submit a complaint, by hiring and training GE.11-43459 11