2.2.6 The individual should be expressly and promptly informed of these fundamental safeguards and their corollary rights. 2.3 Other arrangements 2.3.1 Comprehensive custody records are essential to providing for the communication of information and evidence relating to ill-treatment. 2.3.2 Prosecutors and judges should seek to provide for the communication of information and evidence relating to ill-treatment. They must take resolute action in response to information that ill-treatment may have been suffered by persons brought before them. They must conduct proceedings in such a manner as to ensure that the individual has a real opportunity to make an open statement about the manner in which he or she has been treated. 2.3.3 Public officials (including police officers and prison staff ) should be formally required to notify the competent authorities immediately upon becoming aware of allegations or other indications of ill-treatment. Where the authorities receiving these notifications are not themselves competent to deal with them, they must communicate the relevant information to the competent authorities. 2.3.4 Prison health services have a special role. Adequate and confidential medical screening is key to securing avenues for the communication of information and evidence relating to ill-treatment. Whenever injuries are recorded by a health-care professional which are consistent with allegations of ill-treatment made by a detained person, that information is to be immediately and systematically brought to the attention of the relevant authority, regardless of the wishes of the person concerned. If a detained person is found to bear injuries which are clearly indicative of ill-treatment but refuses to reveal their cause or gives a reason unrelated to ill-treatment, his or her statement should be accurately documented and reported to the authority concerned together with a full account of the objective medical findings. 2.3.5 States should ensure a wide range of avenues through which individuals or their representatives can confidentially communicate complaints of ill-treatment to the competent domestic and international authorities, including superior officers and governmental institutions, judicial and prosecutorial authorities, specialised complaints bodies and inspection and monitoring mechanisms. 2.3.6 Individuals must be able to exercise their rights under Article 8 of the ECHR by sending to the competent authorities/bodies uncensored written correspondence. Guidelines on international standards ► Page 11