A/HRC/31/57/Add.4 (d) Ensure supervision of the forensic services that have the capacity to make binding recommendations and take disciplinary measures in cases of malpractice; (e) Create a practical interstate environment for sharing best practices and lessons learned related to the fight against torture and ill-treatment; (f) Put in place and enforce mechanisms to respond to the current lack of oversight, including in special facilities such as “connectors” and “therapeutic communities”; (g) Ensure that the recommendations of oversight bodies, including the national mechanism to prevent and combat torture and the statewide preventive mechanisms, receive adequate follow-up; (h) Guarantee independence to the national mechanism to prevent and combat torture, statewide preventive mechanisms and other monitoring bodies, and grant them unimpeded access to all places where people are deprived of their liberty, to all information and records, and to private interviews with persons deprived of their liberty; (i) Prevent, investigate and punish any and all forms of intimidation, threats and violence by prison staff or third parties against persons who participate in monitoring activities, including members of the national mechanism to prevent and combat torture and the statewide preventive mechanisms; (j) Establish an integrated system to monitor and make publicly available numbers and figures on occurrences of violence and deaths in police and prison custody. 151. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government ensure effective and adequate implementation and application of recommendations from the Special Rapporteur, the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and various relevant mechanisms, such as the national mechanism to prevent and combat torture and the statewide preventive mechanisms. 152. He requests the international community to support the efforts of Brazil to implement the above-mentioned recommendations, in particular by ensuring effective and comprehensive enforcement of new and existing laws and policies. 24

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