Recommendation (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) While CCP article 100 stipulated that a police officer who was not satisfied with a testimony should send the person concerned to the Public Prosecutor within 24 hours, who in turn had to question him/her within 24 hours. An individual could bring action for deprivation of liberty against an official who kept him or her in custody for over 24 hours without questioning. However, in practice persons were at times detained longer than 24 hours. Steps taken in previous years (to be found in A/HRC/7/3/Add.2) Information received on steps taken since December 2007/current situation A/HRC/10/44/Add.5 page 55 (i) Judges and prosecutors routinely ask persons brought from police custody how they have been treated and, even in the absence of a formal complaint from the defendant, order an independent medical examination in accordance with the Istanbul Protocol (j) Those legally arrested should not be held in facilities under the control of their interrogators or investigators for more than the time required by law to obtain a judicial warrant of pretrial detention, which should not exceed 48 hours. After this period they should be transferred to a pretrial facility under a different authority, where no further unsupervised contact Situation during visit (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) mechanism was not effective in practice. It appeared that judges and prosecutors did not ask detainees how they had been treated in police custody.