A/HRC/40/59/Add.2 (c) Ensure that police records are systematic, accurate and reliable regarding the moment of apprehension, the time of transfer and the precise duration of police custody; (d) Ensure that fundamental safeguards including, inter alia, prompt access to legal counsel and independent medical examination, notification of custody and contact with the outside world are guaranteed and applied in practice to all persons deprived of their liberty, regardless of the reason for or the place of detention; (e) Ensure that confessions, testimonies and other information that may have been obtained through torture or other ill-treatment cannot be used as evidence in any judicial, administrative or other proceeding; (f) Provide the regulations, instructions and training required to ensure the transition from an unreliable, confessions-based interrogation system to a modern forensic, non-coercive investigation methodology aimed at accurately and reliably establishing the facts; (g) Ensure accessible, fully independent, proactive, expedient and effective complaint, oversight and investigative mechanisms for the prevention, investigation and prosecution of abuse not only by police and prison staff, but also by officials from all relevant branches and services of government; (h) Ensure systematic medical examinations by independent medical personnel trained in the effective investigation, interpretation and documentation of the signs of physical and psychological torture and other forms of ill-treatment based on the Istanbul Protocol; in particular, ensure that photographic documentation of trauma injuries becomes routine practice, including by making available appropriate equipment in all medical services; (i) Ensure adequate training of all law enforcement, health and legal professionals involved with persons deprived of their liberty in the forensic assessment, interpretation and documentation of the signs of torture and other ill-treatment, in accordance with the Istanbul Protocol and the Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death (2016); (j) Ensure the full institutional, political and financial independence, impartiality and professionalism of the national preventive mechanism, implement its mandate effectively and in full compliance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles) and establish local preventive mechanisms in all provinces without further delay; (k) Ensure that all detention monitoring bodies, whether officially mandated or operating as part of civil society, have free and unhindered access to places of deprivation of liberty and can carry out their monitoring independently and without any undue interference; (l) Appoint the federal Ombudsman without delay so as to enable the Office of the Ombudsperson of the Nation to exercise the full range of its functions in terms of the promotion and protection of human rights, including the prevention of torture and ill-treatment; (m) Ensure that the Office of the Ombudsman for the Prison System is systematically informed of all places where persons are deprived of their liberty and receives unrestricted access not only to federal institutions but also to provincial detention facilities where federal prisoners are held; (n) Provide additional training and instructions to prosecutors and judges on the preferential application of alternatives to detention in order to ensure that detention becomes a measure of last resort; (o) Refrain from introducing new legislation extending the use of detention to additional categories of persons or offences that do not imperatively require deprivation of liberty; 16