A/HRC/7/3/Add.2 page 138 rights, as well as groundless allegations of torture and ill-treatment, which place the law enforcement agencies under suspicion in many instances, modernisation programs for detention facilities and interview rooms, have been put in place within the limits of available budgetary resources and funds. 689. New projects have been designed for the purchase of audio and video facilities to record the questioning and other treatment of persons in custody and interview rooms of the anti-terror branches of Directorates for Security in 34 provinces. These projects were put on tender in early 2007 and a contract was concluded on 26 June 2007 with a company. The project will be completed in 120 days. In 2008, a further of 16 anti-terror branches of Directorates for Security will be equipped with the same audio-visual recording systems. Out of 2,865 custody and interview rooms in police units, 2,237 have been improved through modernization projects. Projects to modernize the remaining 628 are currently underway. As regards the gendarmerie custody and questioning rooms, modernisation programs are currently in place, to the extent the available funds and resources permit. Recently, a total of 1,392 audio-visual recording facilities have been purchased. Plans are underway to purchase 899 more. Within the framework of the modernisation programs, 70 per cent of the gendarmerie custody units have been brought into line with international standards. 690. According to the Government, the CPT, during a recent visit, welcomed the progress achieved in improving the standards of interrogation/identification facilities and noted with satisfaction that certain facilities previously criticised by the CPT had been brought up to acceptable standards. In this regard, the CPT praised the radical improvements made to the interrogation facilities in the Anti-Terror Department at Van Police Headquarters in particular. The delegation was also impressed by the standard of the interview/statement taking rooms of the Anti-Terror Department at İstanbul Police Headquarters (see CPT/Inf (2006) 30, para. 34). 691. Recommendation (d) stated: Medical personnel required to carry out examinations of detainees on entry into police, jandarma, court and prison establishments, or on leaving police and/or jandarma establishments, should be independent of ministries responsible for law enforcement or the administration of justice and be properly qualified in forensic medical techniques capable of identifying sequelae of physical torture or ill-treatment, as well as psychological trauma potentially attributable to mental torture or ill-treatment; international assistance should be given for the necessary training. Examinations of detainees by medical doctors selected by them should be given weight in any court proceedings (relating to the detainees or to officials accused of torture or ill-treatment) equivalent to that accorded to officially employed or selected doctors having comparable qualifications; the police bringing a detainee to a medical examination should never be those involved in the arrest or questioning of the detainees or the investigation of the incident provoking the detention. Police officers should not be present during the medical examination. Protocols should be established to assist forensic doctors in ensuring that the medical examination of detainees is comprehensive. Medical examinations should not be performed within the State