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222. Decision No. A/010/2011 of the Attorney-General of the Federal District, which was
published on 2 June 2011, amended sections 3, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 15 of Decision
No. A/008/2005 establishing action guidelines for public prosecutors, forensic medical
experts and psychologists on the use of medical/psychological evaluation reports for cases
of possible torture.
223.
The amendments introduced are as follows:
• The obligation of prosecution personnel to order an immediate evaluation in cases of
possible torture;
• The right of victims to be examined by a forensic medical expert and psychologist of
their choice;
• The change in the assignment of forensic doctors and psychologists from the
Department of Expert Services to the Directorate for Victims of Crime; and
• The organization of training in the use of medical evaluation reports, to be provided
under the responsibility of the Vocational Training Institute, which will certify the
forensic medical experts and psychologists who successfully complete the courses.
224. The Federal District government, through its Vocational Training Institute, has
published the following collections, which, by reason of their specialized thematic content,
are useful for purposes of establishing general guidelines for investigations conducted by
prosecution personnel and ensuring observance of the right to legal certainty and due
process:
• Advanced studies in criminal sciences:
• Main aspects of oral trials under the new adversarial criminal justice system;
• Truth and the search for truth in the criminal process: the instrument of the
Constitution;
• Wrongful and unlawful acts in the doctrine of the First Division of the
Supreme Court;
• Challenges of justice administration in a globalized world;
• Humanism in criminal law;
• Pretrial detention: constitutional and statutory provisions;
• Criminal law debates:
• Arrest warrants and committal orders;
• Introduction to evidence under the new adversarial criminal justice system;
• Use of physical police coercion, with particular reference to firearms;
• Legislative studies:
• Act Regulating the Use of Force by Public Security Bodies of the Federal
District (with commentary);
• Investigative police:
• 20 basic rules of police self-defence;
• 20 basic aspects of police investigative interviewing;
• Judicial investigations:
• 20 rules for the determination of criminal charges by prosecution authorities;
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