A/66/44 legal aid services provided by the Public Defenders Office and about frequent noncompliance by police officers with court orders to release suspects on bail (arts. 2, 12, 13, 15 and 16). The State party should take prompt and effective measures to ensure that all detainees are, in practice, afforded all fundamental legal safeguards from the very outset of their detention. These include, in particular, the rights of detainees: to be informed of the reasons for their arrest, including of any charges against them; to have prompt access to a lawyer and, when needed, legal aid and an independent medical examination, if possible by a doctor of their choice; to notify a relative; to be brought promptly before a judge; and to have the lawfulness of their detention reviewed by a court, in accordance with international standards. The State party should also consider amending article 19 (3) of its Constitution and article 59 (3) of its Criminal Procedure Code, with a view to ensuring that anyone arrested or detained on a criminal charge is brought promptly before a judge and preventing prolonged remand in custody, respectively. The Committee recommends that the State party provide mandatory training to police officers on the rights of detainees, ensure that court orders to release suspects on bail are strictly enforced, and strengthen the capacity of the Public Defenders Office to provide legal aid services, as well as the quality of such services. Monitoring and inspection of places of deprivation of liberty (13) The Committee notes the information provided by the State party that regular inspections and evaluations of detention and prison facilities and other places of deprivation of liberty are conducted by the prison management and Parliamentarians, as well as by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as “Justice For All – Prison Fellowship Ethiopia”. However, the Committee is concerned about the lack of implementation of the recommendations contained in the 2008 Correctional Facilities Monitoring Visit Report of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, and notes the lack of information about any unannounced visits to places of deprivation of liberty by independent mechanisms. The Committee is seriously concerned that, contrary to the information provided in the State party’s report (paras. 21 and 56), the International Committee of the Red Cross has no access to ordinary detention centres and prisons and was expelled from the Somali Regional State in 2007 (arts. 2, 11 and 16). The Committee calls upon the State party to establish an effective independent national system to monitor and inspect all places of deprivation of liberty and to follow up on the outcome of such systematic monitoring. It should strengthen the mandate and encourage the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to undertake unannounced visits to prisons, police stations and other places of detention, and implement the recommendations contained in the Commission’s 2008 Correctional Facilities Monitoring Visit Report. The State party should also strengthen its cooperation with and support to NGOs to enable them to independently monitor the conditions in places of deprivation of liberty. In addition, the State party should grant the International Committee of the Red Cross and other independent international mechanisms access to prisons, detention centres and any other places where persons are deprived of their liberty, including in the Somali Regional State. The State party is requested to include in its next periodic report detailed information on the place, time and periodicity of visits, including unannounced visits, to places of deprivation of liberty and on the findings and the follow-up on the outcome of such visits. 44 GE.11-45568