(w) Security personnel recommended for United Nations peacekeeping operations be scrupulously vetted for their suitability to serve (x) The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture be ratified, and Situation during visit (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) allegations of torture. Steps taken in previous years (to be found in A/HRC/7/3/Add.2) senior officers to bring it to the attention of their subordinates • Inclusion of CAT in all basic training curricula, lectures and promotion exams for security personnel. The Kerik Group is also training correction staff and modifying inspection mechanisms • Non-governmental sources: In spite of some reforms (mainly training and construction of new prisons), no effective mechanisms of prevention, monitoring and prosecution of perpetrators have been introduced • The issue of prison reform should be publicly discussed with local NGOs and reviewed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to ensure it incorporates the Special Rapporteur’s recommendations No ratification • Visits to detention facilities by the PSD’s Office of Complaints and Human Rights, in conjunction with the NCHR and other civil society Information received on steps taken since December 2007/current situation some sessions about torture and prisoners’ rights within its curriculum A/HRC/10/44/Add.5 page 62 Recommendation (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) incorporates human rights education throughout and that includes training in effective interrogation techniques and the proper use of policing equipment, and that existing personnel receive continuing education