7 23. That the Commission took note and valued the information provided by the State with regard to the training program for the staff of the Military Criminal Courts and law enforcement agencies regarding the case-law of the Inter-American System of Human Rights and, specially, the use of the case of Gutiérrez Soler as a "learned lesson” within the framework of such training. 24. That the measures adopted by the State for the implementation of the training courses for the staff of the National Police, Air Force, National Army and Bureau of Judicial Police, as well as for the personnel of the military criminal jurisdiction, on a program aimed at analyzing the case-law of the Inter-American system of human rights evidence that the State has complied with the obligation ordered by the Inter-American Court (supra Having Seen clause 1). Specially, the Tribunal considers it is positive that the case of Mr. Gutiérrez Soler has been included in the reference training programs, in view of the requirements of the Judgment delivered in this case. * * * 25. That, with regard to the obligation to implement training programs regarding the Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (“the Istanbul Protocol”), the State informed on the beginning of the activities in such regard. In the first place, it pointed out that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gathered in different schools of the State to investigate how familiar with the Istanbul Protocol people are. In the second place, it informed that it was found during previous inquiries that Colombia did not count with skilled personnel to carry out a proper broadcasting and training over the subject matter. To such end, the State would have asked the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights sitting in Colombia for cooperation; such cooperation was provided in June, 2007, according to the information given by the State. Colombia expressed that the training was planned and provided through different public training schools in order to gain support for the programs and adequate broadcasting at national level. According to information and documentation provided by the State, on June 25 and 30, 2007, the first international seminar on the Istanbul Protocol was conducted in Colombia, in order to circulate this manual. The training was under the charge of different international experts. The seminar was divided into two target populations. The first training counted with the participation of officers from the Prosecutor’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office, the Supreme Judiciary Council [Consejo Superior de la Judicatura], the Domestic and Justice Ministry, the National Legal Medicine Institute [Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal], the Ombudsman and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with a total of 70 qualified officers. The second part of the seminar was conducted at the Santander General National School of Police and was addressed to the members of the National Police, National Army, National Navy, Air Force, Military Criminal Courts, the Administrative Department of Security and the National Correctional and Prison Institute, with a total of 60 qualified officers, approximately. Colombia pointed out that, at the moment, is organizing workshops or seminars inside each entity, which are being delivered by already trained officers with the cooperation of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Moreover, it informed that the study of the Istanbul Protocol has been included “in the syllabus of Human Rights-International Humanitarian Rights of the Training and Learning Schools as ordered by the Command of the Army” and that such document was added to the reference library of the Army units.

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