A/HRC/4/40/Add.4 page 25 104. Vigorous guarantees for defendants must go hand in hand with a strong police and public prosecution service. To this end, the investigative capacities of the public prosecution must be strengthened. Serious thought should be given to providing the Ministerio Público with its own investigative police, whether by reversing the 1998 “divorce” between investigative police and public prosecution or otherwise. 105. On a more general level, the Working Group finds it useful to underline that in its experience it is through preventive action and vigorous, well-resourced law enforcement that rising crime levels are best fought. Relaxing safeguards against arbitrary detention, which Honduras has strengthened through its recent criminal procedure reform, and thereby undermining the rule of law has not yet proved to be an effective way to respond to the justified demand of security of a society. Notes 1 The Working Group delegation has itself, in the course of the visit to a police station, met a man who showed obvious traces of having been beaten by the police a few hours before. 2 2006 Human Development Report (pp. 91-93). -----