CAT/C/75 page 28 the Federal level but was no longer the case. None of the recommendations made to his Office by the State Human Rights Commission had involved torture, although in such cases the classification of the offences might be relevant. 131. The Deputy Director of Expert Services said no cases of police brutality against detainees examined by his department had been detected since 1999. (c) Oaxaca 132. The State Attorney-General and the Director of the judicial police told the Committee members that efforts were being made to train police officers and raise their wages; doing so was essential to ending torture and abuses of authority. They also said that, thanks to the National Police Personnel Register established two years earlier, it was no longer possible for a police officer expelled from a police force in one State to be hired by another State or force. The Register’s database was detailed and easily accessible. They further stated that no complaints had been received during the current year from detainees alleging torture by the police. They had, however, received a few complaints of abuse of authority. They said that there had been only one case in which police officials had been prosecuted for torture under the 1993 State law making torture a criminal offence; that case, in which two members of the judicial police were accused, was at the pre-trial stage. They said that the number of court-appointed defence counsel had increased considerably and that their level of training had also improved. 133. The managers of the Forensic Medicine Service in the Attorney-General’s Office stated that no cases of bodily harm by the police had occurred during the year and that if physical abuse of detainees occurred at all it was more likely to occur in rural areas than the capital, where more monitoring systems existed. (d) Guerrero 134. The Director of Public Security and Civic Protection, who is responsible for the State’s social rehabilitation centres (CERESOS), said that less than 1 per cent of detainees admitted to prison showed signs of injury. 135. The State Attorney-General said that torture was rare and explained that his Office had begun a human rights training programme for the judicial police which emphasized the need to “first investigate, then detain” rather than “first detain, then investigate” and to act in accordance with the law. 3. Military authorities 136. The members of the Committee also held meetings with the commanders of the military zones with headquarters in the cities of Reynosa, Oaxaca and Chilpancingo. All stated that military personnel detained people only in cases of flagrante delicto or in joint operations under the authority of the public attorney’s office; they did not question detainees or hold them on military premises, as they were not empowered to do so, and detainees were immediately placed