CAT/C/ROU/CO/2 that police holding cells contain non-standard items which are not in conformity with regulations and which may allow for ill-treatment and torture (arts. 2, 15 and 16). The State party should: (a) Provide the Committee with information on the number of cases of violence by law enforcement officials that have been investigated, the number of perpetrators who have been prosecuted for acts of torture and ill-treatment and the penalties applied to those found guilty; (b) Carry out prompt, impartial, thorough and effective investigations into all allegations of the use of violence, including torture and ill-treatment, by law enforcement officials, prosecute and punish those responsible and provide information to the Committee on the outcome of investigations into the treatment of the two persons at the Ilfov Police Inspectorate; (c) Establish an independent monitoring and oversight mechanism, through the internal disciplinary procedures of the Ministry of the Interior, in order to avoid the investigation of complaints by peers; (d) Ensure that judges, and more particularly judges for rights and freedoms, are automatically notified of all cases of ill-treatment and torture in police detention facilities, regardless of the visibility of the injuries, and equip all places of deprivation of liberty with video devices for recording interrogations, and ensure that persons who have complained about allegations of torture and ill-treatment are protected from reprisals; (e) Reiterate at the highest political level its commitment to zero tolerance of the use of violence against persons deprived of their liberty, including to elicit confessions; (f) Ensure the removal from police stations of all non-standard items that may allow for ill-treatment and torture. Violence against Roma 10. While taking note of the strategy for Roma inclusion and the new legal provisions making racist motivation an aggravating circumstance for all offences under the Criminal Code, the Committee is seriously concerned at: (a) The persistence of reports of racist hate crimes against Roma; (b) The vulnerability of Roma suspects who are “administratively conveyed” to police stations, by law enforcement officials, with increased risks of ill-treatment and torture; (c) The reported excessive use of force by law enforcement officials against Roma, including the death in police custody of 26-year-old Gabriel-Daniel Dumitrache on 4 March 2014. According to reports, the police officer currently being prosecuted has been charged with assault, where racial motivation is only an aggravating circumstance, resulting in involuntary manslaughter under article 195 of the Criminal Code, instead of being charged with torture resulting in death under article 282 (3) of the Criminal Code. The family members of Mr. Dumitrache who identified the body reportedly indicated that it showed signs of severe beating, a broken leg, injuries to the abdomen and burn marks on the chest, which were not consistent with the information provided by the police; (d) Instances of racist hate speech directed against Roma, and the high incidence of anti-Roma rhetoric and negative stereotypes in public and political discourse, by State and non-State actors (arts. 2, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16). 4