Recommendation (A/HRC/7/3/Add.4) Situation during visit (A/HRC/7/3/Add.4) Steps taken to implement the recommendations frequent victims of discrimination and ill-treatment. There was no regular or systematic mechanism or activities related to independent visits to detention facilities. No such campaigns existed. Non-governmental sources: Human rights education has not been incorporated in security personnel training, however, some human rights training is offered to senior personnel. Some interrogation techniques training is provided, but the extreme lack of investigative equipment and facilities risks rendering any training obsolete. Non-governmental sources: There is no awareness of vetting procedures for security personnel recommnded for United Nations or regiona, peacekeeping operations. Non-governmental sources: The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture has not been ratified and no independent monitoring mechanism has been established. Committees of the National Assembly who have statutory oversight responsibility, but fall short of the requirements stipulated in the Optional Protocol, do not fulfil their task to ensure that conditions and treatment in places of detention are in accordance with international requirements. Non-governmental sources: There have been no such programmes or campaigns. A/HRC/10/44/Add.5 page 85 Prevention (x) Security personnel shall undergo extensive and thorough training using a curriculum that incorporates human rights education throughout and that includes training in effective interrogation techniques and the proper use of policing equipment, and that existing personnel receive continuing education (y) Security personnel recommended for United Nations, as well as regional, peacekeeping operations should be scrupulously vetted for their suitability to serve (z) The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture should be ratified, and a truly independent monitoring mechanism should be established - where the members of the visiting commissions would be appointed for a fixed period of time and not subject to dismissal - to carry out unannounced visits to all places where persons are deprived of their liberty throughout the country, to conduct private interviews with detainees and subject them to independent medical examinations (aa) Systematic training programmes and awareness-raising campaigns be carried out on the principles of the Convention against Torture for the public at large, security personnel, legal professionals and the judiciary