Decides to: - Increase attention to and follow up on the issues of the rule of law and due process in criminal justice systems in 2006, inter alia, by encouraging participating States to improve the implementation of existing commitments, also drawing on the expertise of the ODIHR, and in close co-operation with other relevant international organizations in order to avoid unnecessary duplication; Tasks the ODIHR and other relevant OSCE structures to: - Assist the participating States to share with one another successful examples, expertise and good practices to improve criminal justice systems; - Assist the participating States upon their request to strengthen the institutional capacity of defence lawyers to protect and defend the rights of their clients. Brussels 2006 (Brussels Declaration on Criminal Justice Systems) [Members of the Ministerial Council] also recall relevant UN instruments, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. (…) We consider that: (…) - In the performance of their duty, law enforcement officials should respect and protect human dignity and maintain and uphold the human rights of all persons; - Law enforcement officials should use force only to the extent necessary and appropriate to accomplish their mission and to ensure the safety of the public; - Law enforcement officials, as members of the broader group of public officials or other persons acting in an official capacity, should not inflict, instigate, encourage or tolerate any act of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; - No law enforcement official should be punished for not obeying orders to commit or conceal acts amounting to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; Helsinki 2008 (Decisions: Decision No. 7/08. Further Strengthening the Rule of Law in the OSCE area) The Ministerial Council (…) 56