E/CN.4/1993/26 page 127 573. The military authorities, whatever their rank and function, comply with the requests of the legal officers concerned and make available the facilities required for the business the latter conduct in regard to applications for habeas corpus, even when these are undertaken in areas declared to be in a state of emergency. 574. The International Committee of the Red Cross is given facilities allowing it to enter all places of detention in military installations in the emergency zones. 575. The Ministry of Defence has taken steps to standardize instruction on human rights in compliance with Law 25211 and the Presidential Directive on respect for human rights. The Directive is being actively applied in the various military training centres at all levels. The instruction has also been implemented in military training programmes for non-commissioned officers and other ranks. 576. Authorization has been given for six officers of the Military Juridical Corps to travel to the United States of America at the invitation of the United States military aid and consultative group to attend a course on human rights. On their return the officers will design a course on human rights for military personnel of the various armed forces in Peru. 577. On 12 October 1992 the Government of Turkey (visited in September 1988) transmitted to the Special Rapporteur the text of the Code of Practice for Remand in Custody of 22 September 1992 of which article 3 is of particular relevance to the prevention of torture. In his report on the visit to Turkey, the Special Rapporteur had recommended: "(b) If a person files a complaint that he has been tortured during his detention, medical examination of that person could be entrusted to a doctor, chosen from a panel of qualified and experienced physicians: such a panel could be established by an independent professional organization". 578. Article 3 of the Code of Practice reads as follow: "3. As to the regulations related to administrative procedures: (a) The periods of police custody should be strictly complied with. (b) Taking sanitary conditions into consideration, access of the persons in police custody to cleaning and other facilities should be allowed under the control of the police or gendarmerie officials. (c) The doctor who will perform the above-mentioned medical examinations should be a doctor from the relevant forensic institute or he should be an authorized government doctor. However, should a person held in police custody request it, he should be accorded the right to be examined by a doctor of his own choice, if it is thought that such permission will not jeopardize the security of the investigation. If there are reasonable grounds that access to a detainee by the doctor