3 […] the customary security plans offered [by] the State should include the option that those who carry out risk studies and other activities intended to ensure the safety and security of the persons protected by the measures do not belong to the regional security organizations, of the Department of El Meta in this case, so that they are acceptable to the persons who have been threatened. 7. The Commission’s petition, included with these observations, in which it asks the Court “to request the State to submit comprehensive information on […][t]he measures adopted to investigate the assassination of Gonzalo and Humberto Zárate Triana and to prosecute and punish the perpetrators and those who planned it.” 8. that: The twenty-sixth report of the State, of June 15, 2001, in which it indicated [T]he Office of the Eighth Deputy Prosecutor before the Criminal Circuit Judges of the Villavicencio Life and Personal Safety Unit is conducting the preliminary investigation, under file No. 49228, into the crime of the homicide of the brothers Gonzalo and Humberto Zárate Triana, during acts that occurred in the district of Manantial in Villavicencio on June 5 this year. 9. The Commission’s observations of August 17, 2001, on the State’s twentysixth report (supra 8), in which it states that: There is no further information on specific measures aimed at establishing the identity of those responsible and including them in the investigation. The petitioners have reiterated […] their concern about the way in which the judicial authorities treated the next of kin of the victims, searched their home without giving any explanation and removed documents and personal effects. Apparently, the investigation focused on the home of the victims and was not expanded to the surrounding areas, by which the perpetrators entered and escaped. The petitioners consider that the manner of the procedure to remove the corpse and the interrogations, far from offering evidence of the authorities’ legitimate interest in clarifying the assassinations, was extremely intimidating for the next of kin of Gonzalo Zárate and his brother Humberto. 10. The Commission’s petition, included with these observations, in which it requested the Court to order the State to “[a]dopt effective measures to investigate the assassination of Gonzalo and Humberto Zárate Triana and prosecute and punish the perpetrators and those who planned it.” 11. that: The State’s twenty-seventh report of August 13, 2001, in which it indicated in communication number DH1605 of June 20 this year, the Presidential Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Program of the Vice Presidency of the Republic requested the National Director of Prosecutors Offices of the Office of the Prosecutor General that the investigation being conducted by the Office of the Eighth Prosecutor before the Criminal Circuit Judges of the Villavicencio Life and Personal Safety Unit for the homicide of Gonzalo Zárate Triana and Humberto Zárate Triana, in the course of acts that occurred on June 5 this year, in the Manantial district of the city of Villavicencio, should be assumed by the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Prosecutor General. 12. The Commission’s observations of October 9, 2001, on the twenty-seventh report of the State (supra 11), in which it indicates that, although four months have passed since the request for the transfer of the investigation to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Prosecutor General, no information had been provided on whether that transfer had been carried out and that “the State had failed to