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Protocol) is not provided to all medical professionals dealing with persons deprived of
liberty and asylum seekers (art. 10).
The State party should:
(a)
Further develop and strengthen training programmes to ensure that all
public officials, including law enforcement, prison and immigration officers and
judges are aware of the provisions of the Convention;
(b)
Ensure that law enforcement officials are trained in and comply with the
Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials (adopted by the General Assembly in
resolution 34/169 of 17 December 1979) and the Basic Principles on the Use of Force
and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials (adopted at the eighth United Nations
Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders).
(c)
Provide training to the officials, members of the security services or
military personnel of the State party on the provisions of the Convention, human
rights law and international humanitarian law;
(d)
Provide training on the Istanbul Protocol for medical personnel and
other officials involved in dealing with detainees and asylum seekers in the
investigation and documentation of cases of torture;
(e)
Develop methodologies to assess the effectiveness and impact of training
programmes on the prevention and absolute prohibition of torture and ill-treatment.
Conditions of detention and deaths in custody
19.
As stated in previous concluding observations, the Committee remains concerned
about the poor conditions in places of detention, including serious overcrowding, which
gives rise to inter-prisoner violence. It is also concerned at the infrastructure and poor
material conditions in a number of prisons, which are not in conformity with international
standards and which have been aggravated by recent events in some parts of the country.
The Committee is gravely concerned at the high mortality rate previously documented
among prisoners, including a high incidence of suicide (arts. 2, 11, 12, 13 and 16).
The Committee reiterates that the State party should take resolute measures to:
(a)
Enhance steps to improve the material conditions of detention, in
conformity with the appropriate provisions of the Standard Minimum Rules for the
Treatment of Prisoners, including by renovating existing prison facilities, closing those
unfit for use, building new ones and ensuring the best existing international standards
for living space;
(b)
Enhance steps to reduce inter-prisoner violence, including at the
instigation of prison officials, by launching independent investigations into all such
incidents, reducing overcrowding, improving prison management and the
prisoner/staff ratio, training prison staff and medical personnel on communication
with, and managing of, inmates and on detecting signs of vulnerability, and by
strengthening the monitoring and management of vulnerable prisoners;
(c)
Establish an independent mechanism to deal freely and independently
with any complaints of inmates about their treatment and conditions of detention,
provide effective follow-up to such complaints for the purpose of remedial action and
ensure that inmates who file complaints are not subjected to reprisals and that, should
any cases of reprisals arise, investigations are launched, the victims provided with
protection and the perpetrators sanctioned;
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