CAT/OP/ARG/1/Add.1 transgender persons. Steps have therefore been taken to amend detention reports, registers and records as well as other records and paperwork accordingly; (e) Pursuant to Resolution No. 1515/2012, the Ministry of Security restricts the carrying, possession and transport of service weapons for police and security forces officers with a history of domestic violence, who are on psychological leave or who are under investigation for the misuse of firearms. These protection measures are designed to prevent violence against women, within families and in interpersonal relationships. IV. A. Federal police custody Conditions of detention 19. Since its establishment in 2010, the Ministry of Security has monitored the temporary conditions of accommodation of all detainees held in police and security force custody. 20. This policy lies at the heart of the mandate of the National Human Rights Directorate of the Ministry, which pursuant to the provisions of Decree No. 2009/2010, must, inter alia, “evaluate, coordinate and supervise the security force’s application and enforcement of local rules and international treaties and conventions relating to international human rights law”. 21. The policy comprises a schedule of periodic reports prepared with the Prison Commission of the Chief Public Defender’s Office. These reports contain details of all persons temporarily detained on any premises of the Argentine Naval Prefecture or National Gendarmerie, including the dates of their admission and release where applicable, their procedural status and the judicial authority responsible for their detention. Such data are published fortnightly and include information on the accommodation capacity of each prison establishment. 22. A project has also been introduced to survey and refurbish federal police stations which come under the authority of the Ministry of Security. The aim is to evaluate what measures are needed to improve the conditions of detention for persons temporarily held in police custody. 23. As to the need for the Federal Government to audit the material conditions of detention for persons deprived of their liberty and the frequency of visits by monitoring bodies, since its establishment the Ministry of Security has devised a series of monitoring and audit mechanisms. These measures have included the introduction of a free complaints hotline (0800-555-5065) for reporting and duly investigating police abuse, as well as the establishment of a national inspection body designed to regularly audit police and security force premises which come under the authority of the Ministry of Security. 24. Lastly, the Ministry of Security has laid down that minors who have been deprived of their liberty following an offence should not be held in police custody but rather be sent directly to the Admissions and Referral Centre operated by the Secretariat for Children, Young Persons and the Family of the Ministry of Social Development. B. Torture and ill-treatment 25. With regard to the observations concerning allegations of police brutality during arrests and the disproportionate use of force and/or firearms, the Ministry of Security has adopted specific measures and policies to reverse this worrying trend. GE.14-40297 7