15 20) Investigations reveal that the TREASURY POLICE DEPARTMENT has been operating on the margins of the law, abusing its power to the detriment of the people and violating human rights. (cfr. Police report, official communication No. 3214 Ref. BIEN. FOA/rrh, of June 6, 1988, signed by Felicito Olíva-Arias, Chief of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police; by the captors Infantry Colonel [Dem]. Julio Enrique Caballeros-Seigne, Director General of the National Police; Amado de Jesús Campos-Monterroso, Francisco Castañeda-Espino, Fausto Enrique Meda-Navarro, Rubén Darío González-Escobar, Orlando Hernández-Ascencio, Francisco Javier-Cameros, José Arturo Trabanino-Morales; by investigators Reinaldo Rodríguez-Hernández, Chief of the Homicide Section, Edwin Gudiel-Alveño, Eusbaldo Morales-Marroquín, José Eduardo Cabrera, Miguel Wilfrido Santelis-Barillas, Manuel Alfonso PintoMartínez, Carlos René Juárez-Hernández, Francisco Domingo Cipriano S., Sonia Aracelly del Cid-Hernández and Rudy Alex Miranda-Ramírez). 63. Attached to the aforementioned report, the Police submitted documentation relating to the following: the alleged abduction and murder of each one of the victims; the detention and introduction into the white van; the investigation into registration plates used by the Treasury Police, many of which belonged to vehicles owned by individuals and private firms. Also attached to the report, as evidence, were six cassette tapes containing the statements of six members of the Treasury Police and the Treasury Police Department "Log" for January 22 to March 20, 1988. There were contradictions and inaccuracies in the statements of the six members of the Treasury Police; in their statements to the examining magistrate in the case they denied everything, including their presence in the van on the day and at the time of its seizure by the Police. (cfr. Police report, official communication No. 3214 Ref. BIEN. FOA/rrh, of June 6, 1988, signed by Felicito Olíva-Arias, Chief of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police; questionnaire for the interviews with the members of the Treasury Police detained on March 10, 1988; statement of César Augusto Guerra-Ramírez, delivered to the Chief of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police, Felicito Olíva-Arias, on April 13, 1988; statement of Neftalí Ramírez-García, delivered to the Chief of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police, Felicito Olíva-Arias, on April 13, 1988; statement of Manuel de Jesús de la Cruz-Hernández, delivered to the Chief of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police, Felicito Olíva-Arias, on April 13, 1988; statement of Aníbal René Morales-Marroquín, delivered to the Chief of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police, Felicito Olíva-Arias, on April 13, 1988; statement of Juan José Elías-Palma, delivered to the Chief of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police, Felicito Olíva-Arias, on April 13, 1988; statement of Igloberto Pineda-Juárez, delivered to the Chief of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police, Felicito Olíva-Arias, on April 13, 1988; statement of José Luis Grajeda-Beltetón, delivered to the Seventh Court of Criminal First Instance of Guatemala on July 19, 1988; statement of Neftalí Ramírez-García, delivered to the Seventh Court of Criminal First Instance of Guatemala on July 19, 1988; statement of Igloberto Pineda-Juárez, delivered to the Seventh Court of Criminal First Instance of Guatemala, on July 19, 1988; statement of César Augusto Guerra-Ramírez, delivered to the Seventh Court of First Criminal Instance of Guatemala on July 19, 1988; statement of Manuel de Jesús de la Cruz-Hernández, delivered to the Seventh Court of Criminal First Instance of Guatemala on July 19, 1988; statement of Juan José Elías-Palma, delivered to the Seventh Court of Criminal First Instance of Guatemala on July 19, 1988, and statement of Aníbal René Morales-Marroquín, delivered to the Seventh Court of Criminal First Instance of Guatemala on July 19, 1988). 64. During the public hearings held at the Court on September 22, 23 and 24, 1997, this report was ratified in all its parts by witnesses Julio Enrique CaballerosSeigne and Felicito Olíva-Arias, who at the time of the acts being tried were, respectively, Director-General of the National Police and Chief of the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police (infra, para. 67 (h) and (p)). 65. The aforementioned police report, and the conclusions the police arrived at, was based on numerous prior police reports prepared on the basis of the initial investigations into the acts sub judice, including personal testimony.