understand that torture was an illegal and unacceptable practice and it was recognized that reforms in law and institutional structures must be accompanied by a change of the approach and mentality of law enforcement officials; A compilation including the recommendations of the CAT-Committee and Amnesty International as well as decisions by domestic bodies focusing on torture was published, which was to be distributed among law enforcement officials as well as the general public. (i) Give urgent consideration to discontinuing the use of the detention centre of the Ministry of National Security, preferably for all purposes, or at least reducing its status to that of a temporary detention facility; The detention centre served as a police station, provisional detention ward and remand centre where persons can be held until conviction and sentencing; The suspect therefore remained at the hands of the investigators of the Ministry of National Security during the entire special publications focusing on the rights of detainees; In 2002 the Ministry of Justice signed an order aiming at the inclusion of international and regional human rights standards into the educational training programmes; In 2005, the “Law on access to information” was adopted, guaranteeing the right to free access to information on an equal basis; The President endorsed by decree a new structure within the Ministry of Justice - the Department for Human Rights and Relations with Society; A joint programme with the Council of Europe and the European Commission was signed in 2006, focusing on the reform of laws in the penitentiary sphere; The Ministry of Internal Affairs created a complaints website and an e-mail address; Posters prepared on the basis of the Constitution, international documents on fundamental human rights and freedoms, and normative acts regulating the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were placed on the walls of all police stations. Measures are being taken for the implementation of a “Community policing” project within the framework of cooperation with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Government: during the last years the Ministry of National Security (MNS) has taken special measures in order to humanize the activities of the Investigatory Cell, paying increased attention to detention conditions; Representatives of ICRC, OSCE/ODIHR, CPT and other governmental and nongovernmental organizations, considered the functioning of the MNS’s Investigatory Cell as exemplary for other detention facilities; Regarding the recommendation about discontinuation of the use of this detention facility, it has to be noted that this could create problems for guaranteeing speed, A/HRC/13/39/Add.6 10 aware of their rights, public awareness campaigns on basic human rights, in particular on police powers, should be considered;