CAT/OP/BRA/2/Add.1 violence. In this respect, the need to create independent ombudsman’s offices and police internal affairs units was reasserted. 85. In order to achieve the objectives of the Plan, the Federal Government began to promote the establishment of ombudsman’s offices and police internal affairs units, resulting in the creation of the ombudsman’s offices and 21 police ombudsmen around the country, which operate with full autonomy, in accordance with the Plan’s guidelines. The National Forum of Ombudsmen for the Police, which is devoted to formulating joint strategies in this area, was created in 2006. 86. Lastly, the hope of the Federal Government is that, once the National Mechanism to Prevent and Combat Torture is in place, monitoring of information will be improved and integrated, bringing together in coordinated fashion the reception of complaints and the initiatives of the various supervisory bodies. Since the evaluation of prisons requires uniform parameters and indicators, one of the specific goals of the Agreement on Measures to Improve the Prison System and Reduce the Shortfall in Capacity is the production of data. “Geopresídios” prisons atlas initiative of the National Council of Justice 87. Under the provisions of National Council of Justice Resolution No. 47 of 18 December 2007, sentence enforcement judges must inspect the correctional facilities in their jurisdictions once a month. By the fifth day of the following month, they must also submit a report on the inspection through the Council’s own electronic system. 88. The results of these inspections can be consulted online through the Geopresídios prisons atlas system, which provides an overview of the main correctional institutions – penitentiaries, prisons for pretrial detention, police holding cells, psychiatric institutions and so on. On the Council’s website,21 anyone may view the number of beds, the number of convicts and pretrial detainees, the sentence enforcement judge’s assessment of the conditions at the institution, and figures for deaths and escapes for any prison in Brazil. 89. In addition, through the monitoring and oversight group of the state prisons system, the National Council of Justice distributes a handbook for persons in prison and another for women in prison. These handbooks further clarify the rights, obligations and guarantees pertaining to convicted and pretrial prisoners. F. Community councils 90. In its comments on the report of Brazil, the Subcommittee requested further information about the community councils. 91. The Brazilian State recognizes that society’s involvement is fundamental to the serving of sentences and to dealing with human rights violations. For this reason, the Sentence Enforcement Act provides for a body to be created in each judicial district where there are persons deprived of their liberty, to represent the community in a process that starts with the beginning of a sentence and ends with the return to society. This body is the community council, provided for in articles 80 and 81 of Act No. 7210 of 11 July 1984, the Sentence Enforcement Act. 92. The community councils are required to comprise members of the Bar Association of Brazil, municipal chambers of commerce, the Social Services Council and the Public Defender’s Office. Persons from the community interested in the subject may participate as 21 22 http://www.cnj.jus.br/programas-de-a-a-z/sistema-carcerario-e-execucao-penal/geopresidios-page. GE.14-42059