6 Blake (Operative paragraph one of the Judgment of the reparations of January 22, 1999). Nevertheless, the Court decided to keep open the procedure to monitoring compliance in order for the State to inform about the measures adopted to comply with the obligation to investigate, prosecute and, if applicable, punish the responsible of the human rights' violations declared by the Tribunal in the instant case. Specially, the Court requested the State to inform about the measures adopted to investigate and, where applicable, prosecute and punish those people identified as the alleged responsible in the instant case. 8. That, the private hearing was held without the participation of the victim's next of kin and their representatives, who were excused from attending the hearing due to personal reasons. Notwithstanding, before the hearing was conducted, they submitted a brief regarding their opinion on the status of compliance with the Judgments delivered in the case at hand (supra Having Seen 9). In said brief, the victim’s next of kin observed that the reports submitted by the State only provide general information concerning the contacts made by COPREDEH with the Criminal Investigation Section and officers of the Prosecutor's Office for the District of Huehuetenango. According to the victim’s next of kin, even though COPREDEH has established contact with the authorities of the National Police and the Prosecutor’s Office of Huehuetenango, its report do not provide details regarding what the authorities in charge of the investigation have been doing during these eight years in order to find the other alleged responsible of the murder of Nicholas Chapman Blake. Moreover, they stated that there are no signs that COPREDEH has requested information from the National Police and the Prosecutor’s Office in order to prove such efforts. To such respect, they pointed out that COPREDEH has not provided the Court with specific information regarding when they met such officers, with who they met, if they have discussed some periods of time to visit the place of the facts and if they have closely followed the development of the measures taken by the National Police. The victim’s next of kin noted that COPREDEH has neither designed alternative plans to fix the difficulties caused by the lack of cooperation on the part of the National Police with regard to the investigation and search of the alleged responsible, including other areas of the Government or the offering to accompany the National Police in their search trips. Moreover, the victim's next of kin observed that the State has not shown whether the National Police or the Public Prosecutor's Office have ever searched for information regarding these people in official files or data basis in order to locate them, such as identification card's register, documents from the civil patrol register, driving licenses, tax or other kind of duties' register, among others. In view of the foregoing, the victim’s next of kin deems it is crucial the Government conduct, as soon as possible, a search of these people in all the official and relevant files and records. To such end, they requested the State to fully modify the way they have been conducting the investigation of the instant case and they submitted some recommendations to the Court, including the following: “[a) to request] that COPREDEH be separated from the coordination of the investigation due to its incompetence to take measures on the part of the police and judicial authorities, and minimize its role to inform the Court of the case; [b) to request] the President of Guatemala to appoint an officer in line of authority of the Army, with the rank of Colonel or superior, with the power to plan and conduct the search of three individuals in the town of El Llano and Las Majadas or in nearby towns and with access to the resources of the military base of Huehuetenango; [c) t]o request that a