E/CN.4/2004/56/Add.3 page 14 appreciate receiving information on this bill, in particular whether it is in accordance with the Paris Principles relating to the status of national institutions contained in General Assembly resolution 48/134. 70. Recommendation (s) stated: The police should be unified under civilian authority and civilian justice. Pending this, Congress should approve the draft law submitted by the federal Government to transfer to the ordinary courts jurisdiction over manslaughter, causing bodily harm and other crimes including torture committed by the military police. 71. According to the information received, the unification of the police forces is foreseen in the proposal for the Single System of Public Safety (SUSP), which is reportedly aimed at integrating police actions in the three spheres of power of the executive branch. It is reported that adherence to the system depends exclusively upon the political will of the state governors. All states have adhered to SUSP, except Paraná, Maranhão and Pernambuco. 72. Concerning the mandate of the military police, the Special Rapporteur has been informed that no measure has been taken to implement his recommendation. Despite the recommendations made by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, state military police officers reportedly continue to function under military jurisdictions. 73. Recommendation (t) stated: Police stations (delegacias) should be transformed into institutions offering a public service. The “clean police stations” (delegacias legais) being pioneered in the State of Rio de Janeiro is a model to be emulated. 74. According to the information received, the project of “clean police stations” has not been implemented adequately. Problems have reportedly been observed in the planning for the construction of “custodial houses” to which inmates from deactivated police stations would be transferred. Therefore, in practice, inmates are transferred to cells in other, traditional police stations, thus contributing to their overcrowding. 75. In addition, as a result of an alleged lack of adequate resources, cases of violence, uprisings and escapes from the “custodial houses” have reportedly been on the increase. For the same reasons, the “custodial houses” do not offer adequate services to rehabilitate inmates and control the spread of infectious diseases among the prisoners. 76. Some states, such as Pernambuco and Ceará, established police stations with better infrastructure. However, the innovations have reportedly not been translated into qualitative reform. The service allegedly continues to be similar to that of traditional police stations, thereby defeating the purpose of their revamping. 77. Recommendation (u) stated: A qualified medical professional (a doctor of choice, where possible) should be available to examine every person on being brought to and on leaving a place of detention. He/she should also have the necessary medicines to meet the detainees’ medical needs and the authority to have the detainees transferred to a hospital independent of the detaining authority if those needs cannot be met. Access to the medical profession should not be dependent on the personnel of the detaining authority. Professionals working in institutions of deprivation of liberty should not be under the authority of the institution, nor the political authority responsible for it.