The State party should guarantee the application of fundamental legal safeguards applicable to persons held by the police, ensuring their right to notify a family member, the possibility of consulting a lawyer and a doctor of their choice, the right to obtain information on their rights and, in the case of minors, the right to the presence of their legal representatives during questioning. (22) The Committee regrets that the State party has not yet instituted a programme of training for judicial personnel, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, police and prison staff, including medical, psychiatric and psychological personnel, in the principles and rules for protection of human rights in the treatment of prisoners, as called for by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in its judgement of 7 September 2004. The State party should improve the quality of and enhance the human rights training of State security forces and bodies, and specifically concerning the requirements laid down by the Convention, making use of the resources of civil society (universities, non-governmental organizations, etc.). The State party should approve and rapidly put into effect the national human rights plan for the armed forces. The State party should also, in keeping with the judgement of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Tibi case, set up an inter-agency committee to draw up and implement training programmes in human rights and the treatment of prisoners. (23) The Committee takes note with concern of the allegations that personnel of the security services routinely inflict torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment during criminal investigations in the offices of the judicial police (arts. 11 and 16). The State party should ensure that the allegations of the excessive use of force during criminal investigations are thoroughly investigated, and that those responsible are brought to trial. The State party should ensure that appropriate premises are available to accommodate those detained during the investigation of an offence, with continuous supervision. (24) The Committee deeply deplores the situation in detention centres, and especially in social rehabilitation centres where prisoners’ human rights are constantly violated. The overcrowding, corruption and poor physical conditions prevailing in prisons, and especially the lack of hygiene, proper food and appropriate medical care, constitute violations of rights which are protected under the Convention (art. 11). The State party should adopt effective measures, including approval of the budgetary funds needed to improve physical conditions in detention centres, reduce the current overcrowding and properly meet the fundamental needs of all those deprived of their liberty, in particular through the presence of independent and qualified medical personnel to carry out periodic examinations of prisoners. The Committee also urges the sectoral subcommission on human rights in prisons to implement the operative plan on this subject, whose objectives include action to follow-up training courses and reports of human rights violations in the prison system which have been lodged by individuals. (25) The Committee reiterates its concern at the existence of military and police courts, whose activities are not limited to trying offences committed in the course of duty. This situation is not in keeping with the international treaties to which Ecuador is a party (arts. 12 and 13). The State party should ensure that the ordinary courts fully exercise their competence, in keeping with its international obligations and the terms of transitional provision No. 26 of the Constitution, so as to ensure the full independence of the judiciary. (26) The Committee regrets that the State party’s legislation does not provide for specific machinery to provide compensation and/or reparation and rehabilitation for victims of acts of torture (art. 14). 23