Situation during visit (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) Steps taken in previous years (to be found in A/HRC/7/3/Add.2, Information received in the reporting A/HRC/10/44/Add.5 and A/HRC/16/52/Add.2) period non-governmental organizations play a key role in informing society about human rights issues, including the CAT, through seminars, courses, conferences, publications and booklets. The Media Office and Amman FM Radio receive complaints and remarks from citizens and residents in Jordan and guide them in following up their complaints. In addition, operational procedures were carried out to apply the principle of accountability in which those who commit such practices are prosecuted by public prosecutors in their independent judicial capacity in accordance with the Independence of the Judiciary Act and also by investigation panels. Non-governmental sources: According to the NCHR 2008 annual report, the PSD adopted some effective measures in 2008, including: i) Integrating the Anti-Torture Convention into basic and training curricula, as well as lectures and promotion tests for PSD personnel, particularly those working at CRCs, with the view to entrenching the Convention‘s provisions and concepts into their thinking and practice; ii) Carrying out investigations regarding complaints of human rights violations, including torture, despite the fact that the results are in general still modest; iii} Showing seriousness in dealing with complaints of torture and ill-treatment and referring some of these complaints to the Police Court. (c) The crime of torture be defined as a matter of priority in accordance with article 1 of the Convention against Torture, with Torture was criminalized in accordance with article 208 of the Penal Code; however, the definition was not consistent Penal Code Article 208 was amended by temporary law No. 49 of 2007, to incorporate the definition of torture and increase the minimum prison sentence of three months to six months A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 148 Recommendation (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) prison sentences.