6 19. That the Commission acknowledged the compliance with this aspect of the Judgment. Nevertheless, it deemed appropriate the will expressed by the State when considering of good faith the possibility of carrying out a new publication of the pertinent parts of the Judgment in a national daily newspaper. 20. That the State has complied with its obligation to publish the pertinent parts of the Judgment delivered by this Tribunal in this matter in the official gazette and in a national daily newspaper, in view of what has been determined therein. In relation to the observations made by the representatives as to the publication of the pertinent parts of the Judgment in a national daily newspaper, the Tribunal looks favorably to the fact that, in spite of having published said paragraphs in the weekly newspaper, el Espectador, the State has made a commitment to arrange a second publication of a shorter length of the Judgment, to which the representatives would have agreed. * * * 21. That the State informed that the law enforcement personnel and other public servants are at the moment receiving training on the case-law of the Inter-American system. The State pointed out that the Santander General National School of Police [Escuela Nacional de Policía General Santander] is at the moment teaching training courses on human rights at different levels to the staff of the National Police, and the case of Mr. Wilson Gutiérrez Soler is included in the syllabus as a “lesson learned”. The State noted that the Bureau of the Judicial Police [Dirección de Policía Judicial] is also studying the cases of the Inter-American system of human rights. As to the inclusion of Mr. Gutiérrez Soler’s case as a “learn lesson”, the State informed that it showed the representatives the way the case is being taught in order to receive more information and comments and that the observations made by the representatives would have been put under the consideration of the learning body. Moreover, Colombia pointed out that the Ministry of National Defense included a training course on the analysis of the case-law of the Inter-American system for the staff of the Air Force and training programs on the subject-matter for the National Army. Finally, it informed that the Executive Bureau of Military Criminal Courts [Dirección Ejecutiva de la Justicia Penal Militar] hold, between June 19 and 22, 2007, a “Seminar on Case-Law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights" [Seminario sobre Jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos] in the city of Bogotá. During July 12 and 13, 2007, that same training course was conducted in the city of Cali. The State contributed with some documents on the training some officers of law enforcement agencies receive regarding the Judgment delivered in the case of Gutiérrez Soler, as well as other decisions adopted by this Court in cases against the Colombian State. 22. To such end, the representatives pointed out that they consider positive the implementation of permanent training programs for the personnel of law enforcement agencies and Military Criminal Courts, and that they should include the study of the precedents of the instant case as a "learned lesson". Nevertheless, they added that this “is not enough” since this measure must “be permanent and, as a consequence, must be open to improvement”. The representatives requested the Court to declare the noncompliance with this measure of reparation in view of the fact that its purpose “is fulfilled not only with the implementation of training programs but also with the adoption of some measures to enforce such precedents”.

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