CAT/C/MEX/CO/7 (a) Adopt effective measures to ensure that confessions and statements obtained through torture or ill-treatment are not admitted in evidence in practice, except against persons accused of committing torture, as evidence that the statement was made; (b) Ensure that, when it is alleged that a statement has been obtained through torture, the allegation is investigated immediately and the burden of proof falls not on the victim but on the State; (c) Expand training programmes for judges and prosecutors in order to provide them with the skills needed to detect and investigate all complaints of torture and ill-treatment effectively, and, in particular, to build the institutional capacity that will make it possible for them to disallow statements obtained under torture; (d) Ensure that all law enforcement officers, judges and public prosecutors receive mandatory training emphasizing the link between non-coercive interrogation techniques, the prohibition of torture and ill-treatment, and the obligation of the judiciary to disallow confessions obtained under torture; (e) Ensure that penalties are imposed upon judges who fail to respond appropriately to allegations of torture raised during judicial proceedings. Furthermore, the State party should ensure that officials who extract confessions through torture are immediately brought to justice; (f) Compile and make public information on criminal proceedings in which judges, either on their own initiative or at the request of parties to the case, have ruled that evidence obtained under torture is inadmissible, and the measures taken in that regard. Allegations of torture and ill-treatment 22. The Committee regrets that it did not receive comprehensive information from the State party on the number of complaints of acts of torture or ill-treatment registered during the period under review. According to the limited data provided by the delegation, 870 complaints of acts of torture and 360 complaints of ill-treatment allegedly committed by Federal Police officers were made in 2013, compared with 466 complaints of torture and 40 complaints of ill-treatment in 2018. Complaints of alleged acts of torture committed by officials of the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Republic (hereinafter the Prosecutor General’s Office) numbered 42 in 2013, and 32 in 2018. In total, 3,569 complaints (of an unspecified nature) were registered against officials of the National Institute for Migration in 2013 and 1,216 in 2018. With regard to the Ministry of Defence, the State party merely indicates that between 2013 and 2018 the Ministry was the subject of 22 recommendations of the National Human Rights Commission and that 11 of these recommendations related to torture and ill-treatment. Although the delegation affirmed that the training programmes run for federal law enforcement officers had helped to reduce the number of complaints, the Committee has serious reservations about this claim, especially since the State party has not provided any information at all for the period 2014–2017, nor any disaggregated statistical information concerning the complaints made, the bodies to which they were submitted and the institutions that investigated them. The Committee has also not received the requested information on action taken by the State party in response to the 18 recommendations concerning serious violations that the National Human Rights Commission issued during the period under review in connection with cases of torture and ill-treatment, most of which were directed at the National Security Commission, the Ministry of Naval Affairs and the Prosecutor General’s Office. Lastly, the Committee regrets that the State party has not yet established the national register of cases of torture envisaged under the General Act on Torture (arts. 2 and 13). 23. The State party should: (a) Take the measures necessary to ensure that reporting systems are effective, independent, accessible and completely safe for victims; (b) Create and continually update a national register of cases of torture, as provided for in the General Act on Torture, and compile and publish statistical data 6 GE.19-12617