and for establishing programmes for induction, continuing education, promotion, specialization and appraisal of public servants.
64.Specifically with regard to training of substantive staff of the Attorney-General’s Office, in 1998 the Vocational Training Institute
was tasked with implementing training and update programmes in order to give public servants the knowledge and basic tools for
appropriate action in criminal investigation.
65.As part of the 1998–2006 academic model, the Institute's main activities include:
Devising and planning academic programmes and content for specific topics aimed at upgrading the practical skills of public servants;
Developing specific teaching materials for imparting that content;
Incorporating the subjects of ethics and human rights into professional development courses;
Structuring a faculty composed of civil servants from the substantive units, with teaching experience and an extensive career, in order
to make the most of their experience. To that end, the teaching staff were selected through competitive examinations and were also
trained in teaching techniques;
Incorporating case studies and workshops, in order to promote classroom and field training;
Implementing the advanced vocational university diploma in police investigation for training new police officers, recognized by the
Ministry of Education;
Implementing the ethics, upgrade and professional development programme for the institution’s substantive public servants. This
programme saw the delivery of a comprehensive, interdisciplinary course designed to improve criminal investigation procedures and
techniques, the ethics of public servants, knowledge of and compliance with the code of conduct and the regulatory framework
governing their work. It also included a review of case records and the application of appraisals;
This programme had a positive impact at institutional level, since anyone passing the tests received a 90 per cent pay increase;
Strengthening interinstitutional coordination links with the embassies of Spain and France in Mexico, with a view to promoting
specialist training for personnel of the Judicial Police. To that end, every year, the Spanish Embassy offers the institution scholarships
for the Higher Police Training Course, held in Avila, Spain. Moreover, with the support of the French Embassy, specialized courses
have been given on protection of officials, police command and management, murder investigations and bank robberies.
The main professional development courses were as follows:
Course: Legal framework for the work of the Federal District Judicial Police;
Workshop on drafting police reports;
Course in applied criminology for police investigation;
Course on murder investigation techniques;
Computing workshop;
Workshop for investigating and identifying stolen vehicles;
Conducting preliminary investigations;
Preparing remand warrants;
Theory of crime, and
Interviewing and interrogation.
66.As part of the Institute's activities for upgrading its professional development activities, from December 2006 to date it has
improved the training of the institution’s substantive staff by means of the following measures:
Faculty increased by hiring specialists with acknowledged academic and professional credentials;
Appraisal programmes implemented in order to assess training needs. In November 2008 all police personnel were appraised on the
law governing the use of force for the public security corps of the Federal District;
Teaching of the master’s in administration of justice and master’s in criminology;
Improving the training of clerical officers and experts, through the teaching of the diploma in criminal justice and human rights and the
diploma in forensic science, lasting six months;
Upgrading the Institute’s academic activities through the addition of an academic research unit on selected topics of criminal science;
Creating the editorial line of the Vocational Training Institute, with topical issues, to support the core activities of the Office of the
Attorney-General for the Federal District;
Preparation of training manual for investigative police officers, to be published shortly. Note that this publication is unprecedented in