A/HRC/13/39/Add.6 94 existing personnel receive continuing education training curricula, lectures and promotion exams for security personnel. Several programmes and training courses have been implemented in this regard; the Royal Police Academy incorporated some sessions about torture and prisoners’ rights in its curriculum. (w) Security personnel recommended for United Nations peacekeeping operations be scrupulously vetted for their suitability to serve (x) The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) be ratified, and a truly independent monitoring mechanism be established – where the members of the visiting commissions would be appointed for a fixed period of time and not subject to dismissal – to visit all places where persons are deprived of their liberty throughout the country. OPCAT has not been ratified. (y) Systematic training programmes and awareness-raising campaigns be carried out on the principles of the Convention against Torture for the public at large, security personnel, legal professionals and the judiciary. The Government informed it promotes human rights concepts through awareness-raising programmes disseminated by the media and recently incorporated these concepts into the academic curricula. In various meetings with government officials the Special Rapporteur found a lack of awareness of the seriousness of torture. Visits to detention facilities by the PSD’s Office of Complaints and Human Rights, in conjunction with the NCHR and other civil society organizations have been intensified to prevent wrongful acts, to report and to ensure accountability. Training sessions for judges in the Judicial Institute emphasize the need to combat torture in prisons. Prosecutors, together with judges, have been trained by national and international NGOs on the Convention against Torture and on juvenile justice matters. OPCAT has not been ratified. Non-governmental sources: The NCHR carries out unannounced visits to places of detention. Non-governmental sources: The NCHR and the PSD, the Ministry of Justice, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Mizan Law Group for Human Rights is implementing a programme called “Karama” aimed at the eradication of torture by ensuring that such acts are criminalised, investigated,