CAT/C/PHL/CO/3 acts of torture or ill-treatment are immediately suspended from their duties and remain so throughout the investigation, while ensuring that the principle of presumption of innocence is observed; (d) Establish a database on the number of investigations, prosecutions, convictions, sanctions and compensation granted to victims of torture and members of their families, and report these figures to the Committee in its next report. Coerced confessions 17. While noting that the Anti-Torture Act provides for the inadmissibility of any confession, admission or statement obtained as a result of torture, the Committee is concerned at numerous reports of confessions extracted under torture and ill-treatment by law enforcement officers. It is also concerned at the reported shortage of police officers and the lack of capabilities to conduct investigations (art. 15). 18. The State party should: (a) Take immediate and effective measures to guarantee that coerced confessions or statements are inadmissible in any proceedings, except when invoked against a person accused of torture; (b) Review cases of convictions based solely on confessions, since many of these may have been based on evidence obtained through torture or ill-treatment and, as appropriate, provide prompt and impartial investigations and take appropriate remedial measures; (c) Ensure that persons convicted on the basis of coerced evidence or as a result of torture and ill-treatment are afforded a new trial and adequate redress; (d) Ensure that law enforcement officials, army personnel, judges, prosecutors and lawyers receive training on how to detect and investigate cases in which confessions are obtained under torture; (e) Ensure that officials who extract such confessions, including persons liable under the principle of command responsibility, are brought to justice, prosecuted and punished accordingly; (f) Provide the Committee with information on any cases in which confessions were deemed inadmissible on the grounds that they were obtained through torture and indicate whether any officials have been prosecuted and punished for extracting such confessions. Blindfolding 19. The Committee is concerned at reports that persons detained by security forces are blindfolded. It is also concerned at the reported insistence of public prosecutors on positive visual identification, which prevents victims of torture who were blindfolded from identifying the perpetrators, even if their allegations are consistent with physical and psychological symptoms of torture and visible or permanent physical injury (arts. 2, 11 and 16). 20. The State party should: (a) Increase awareness among the security forces about the prohibition of blindfolding under section 4 (b) (1) of the Anti-Torture Act; (b) 6 Sanction all instances of blindfolding;