6 company does not include the controls required to guarantee the satisfactory functioning of the measures of protection.” As to the option that the protection scheme be transferred to the National Police, they indicated that, in the absence of sufficient information, they could not give an opinion. They also recalled the undertaking made by the State at the public hearing held on this matter on January 29, 2010, according to which Colombia would implement mechanisms to monitor the security schemes with the participation of the beneficiaries and the Attorney General‟s Office, and they indicated that they were unaware of any measures that may have been adopted in this regard. 13. For its part, the Inter-American Commission noted that, in its reports, the State had not addressed certain aspects of the security scheme to which the representatives had referred in their observations. In addition, it observed that, despite “having repeatedly asked [the State] for specific information on the DAS „intelligence strategy,‟” the State had still not presented information in that regard. In its observations of February 15, 2011, it observed that the State had not submitted information on the “current measures to protect the office of the Civic Committee of Meta.” a.2 Regarding the situation of risk of the beneficiary Islena Rey 14. The representatives advised that, on August 15, 2010, the office of the Civic Committee of Meta had been robbed in the early morning hours. They stated that the “authors of this act completely destroyed the main door of the office, searched the offices of the professionals and of Islena Rey,” and went through the Committee‟s files, which contained information on cases and situations that the organization was monitoring. They added that the authors took video, audio, photographic and projection equipment with information on activities to disseminate human rights in rural communities, but “did not steal or take the computers or the money kept in the office.” They also reported that, following the robbery, the officers assigned by the National Police to guard the premises had accessed the Committee‟s computers without authorization, and consequently “they had had access to electronic files with information on cases of human rights violations.” In this regard, the representatives indicated that, although they are unaware of the interest or motive of the said officers, “they fear that these abuses […] may be linked to the harassment [and attack on the office] of the Civic Committee of Meta.” They advised that the Civic Committee and its President, the beneficiary Islena Rey, had informed the Prosecutor General‟s Office and the public in general that the attack on the office and the theft of equipment were clearly related to their work as human rights defenders. Moreover, regarding this incident, the representatives indicated that the authorities had been informed immediately and that a complaint had been filed owing to the conduct of the police officers assigned to guard the office. They also underscored that they hoped that the investigation would be conducted promptly and that they would be informed of the results. Subsequently, in their observations of February 16, 2011, they indicated that they had no information on any progress in the investigation undertaken by the Internal Control Office of the National Police. 15. The representatives also indicated that the context of the armed conflict in the department of Meta continues to be an element of risk. In particular, they referred to the presence of paramilitary groups, “composed of individuals who demobilized in 2007, including one group known as the Ejercito Revolucionario Popular Anticomunista [People's Anti-Communist Revolutionary Army of Colombia] (ERPAC),” as well as support for the paramilitary group by state agents, “specifically, the National Army and the […] DAS.” In this regard, they emphasized that the beneficiary Islena Rey had alerted the authorities to the “infiltration of paramilitary groups in the DAS,” as well as the participation of paramilitary groups in situations of risk where she had been a victim, such as the attack of