337. The Commission asked the Court to order the State to implement training programs on international human rights standards in general, and with regard to boys, girls and adolescents in particular, for the Police of Aragua state. 338. The representatives requested that the State “conduct training courses for all the members of its security forces on the principles and norms for the protection of human rights, in particular the prohibition of torture,” and on the restrictions to the disproportionate use of force and firearms. 339. The State provided information on the constant training provide to the Bolivarian National Police by the creation of the Universidad Nacional Experimental de la Seguridad, under the country’s police reform process. 340. Expert witness Rosario Salas advised that the said university has four campuses throughout the country, that its academic policy is based on respect for human rights, and that it offers training to candidates for the police corps, and refresher courses for those who are already part of it. Moreover, the laws that this expert provided to the Court include the provision that all police officials must take a retraining course at least once every two years,417 and a refresher course on progressive and differentiated use of force, at least once a year.418 341. The Court assesses positively the information provided by Venezuela about the creation of the Universidad Nacional Experimental de la Seguridad and about the training and re-training of police officials. However, in order to guarantee the non-repetition of human rights violations, the Court considers it important to enhance the institutional capacities of the police personnel of Aragua state by training them on the principles and norms for the protection of human rights, including the rights to life, to personal integrity, and to personal liberty, as well as on the restrictions to which they are subject when arresting anyone.419 To this end, the State must continue the actions it has carried out and implement, within a reasonable time, a compulsory program or course on the elements indicated as part of the general and continuous training of all ranks of the police of Aragua state. During this program or course, reference must be made to this judgment, to the case law of the Inter-American Court concerning the prohibition of torture, to personal integrity and personal liberty, to the use of force, and to the rights of children and adolescents in relation to the penal system, as well as to the international human rights obligations arising from the treaties to which Venezuela is party.420 342. Additionally, the representatives asked that the Court order the State to train the agents of the Forensic Unit of the Public Prosecution Service on essential elements of investigation such as “exhumation, autopsy and identification procedures, [and] return of the identified remains to the next of kin.” Apart from this, they merely requested general training that “includes the necessary expertise to prosecute cases of serious violations of fundamental rights and to overcome the shortcomings identified [in the investigation].” 417 Cf. Article 31 of the “Law on the Statute for Police Functions,” published in Official Gazette No. 5,940 on December 17, 2009 (merits file, tome VII, folios 1252 to 1289). 418 Cf. “Manual on Progressive and Differentiated Use of Force by the Police” (merits file, tome VII, folios 1682 to 1718). 419 Cf. Case of the La Rochela Massacre, supra note 404, para. 303, and Case of Torres Millacura et al., supra note 41, para. 173. 420 Cf. Case of El Caracazo, supra note 408, para. 127, and Case of Torres Millacura et al., supra note 41, para. 173. 104