CAT/C/75 page 26 • To continue action aimed at eradicating impunity in cases of proven human rights violations; • To design mechanisms for the regular and systematic identification of the progress made and obstacles encountered in implementing human rights policies; • To publicize promotion and protection mechanisms more widely; • To help ensure that international human rights commitments are met; • To strengthen the autonomy of the non-judicial system; • To promote cooperation between the public sector and society at large through the institutional and legal mechanisms available for strengthening the protection of human rights. 123. In the area of public security the National Programme sets the following objectives, inter alia: • To eliminate corruption in the police force and eradicate practices such as extortion and torture; • To make the security services more professional and establish investigatory systems that decrease impunity and lead to more effective protection of life, physical integrity and property; • To eradicate illegal procedures such as arbitrary detention and harassment of individuals merely for having a criminal record; • To stress systematic human rights training within the curricula of public security training institutions. 124. The Programme also includes a description of 25 actions to combat torture drawn from the recommendations made to Mexico by international human rights mechanisms. 125. The Federal Director of Public Security, to whom the Federal Preventive Police (formerly Federal Highway Police) report, told the Committee members that, although the Preventive Police had serious corruption problems, no cases of torture had come to his attention. He had not been alerted to any cases of torture in Federal prisons, which are also within his competence. Without a doubt, the judicial police did resort to torture and had serious corruption problems; many police officers committed the sorts of offence they were supposed to be investigating and punishing. In his view, public attorneys’ offices and the judicial police should be under the authority of the courts. The public attorney’s office should act on behalf of the courts and be subject to the law, which was not currently the case. Victims should be able to associate themselves with the prosecution in criminal proceedings, thus being able to lodge complaints with the courts, produce evidence, lodge any type of remedy and file amparo proceedings.