4 Rosario Guerrero-Gallucci and her family by officials adscribed to the Dirección General de los Servicios de Inteligencia y Prevención (Intelligence and Prevention Services Bureau) (hereinafter “DISIP”). 10. That the representatives reported that the Juzgado Décimo Tercero de Primera Instancia en Funciones de Control del Circuito Judicial Penal del Área Metropolitana de Caracas (Caracas Metropolitan Area Criminal Judicial Circuit Court of the First Instance with Control Functions Number Thirteen) limited displacement of the officials protecting Ms. María del Rosario Guerrero-Gallucci to the Caracas Metropolitan Area, for which reason when going to another State the beneficiary would be protected by guarding officials from the host State. They added that such decision by the jurisdictional organ turns the situation of Ms. Guerrero-Gallucci more difficult, for it does not clarify who shall appoint the officials of the State that will host her and it creates an additional burden, in that a request has to be made and a reply thereto has to be awaited each time she comes and goes. Therefore, it was requested that coordination in the implementation of the provisional measures not be left to a local jurisdictional organ, but rather that the Agencia del Estado para los Derechos Humanos (Human Rights Agency of the State) be entrusted with the responsibility to mediate and coordinate planning and implementing the measures, for it is the organ with which the petitioners are in permanent contact. Likewise, they expressed that the beneficiary defrays with their own funds part of the upkeep and the transportation costs of the security officials in charge of protecting them. They consider such outlays must be allocated as travelling expenses to the officials in charge of protection and must be defrayed fully by the State. Regarding the above, the Commission considered it necessary for the State to report on the way how protection to Ms. Guerrero-Gallucci during her displacements was being implemented and the way how the additional burden of requesting and waiting for an answer each time she has to come and go is meant to be removed. 11. That the State informed that Ms. Guerrero-Gallucci “was restricted from leaving the Caracas Metropolitan Area with DISIP officials, it being established that in case said citizen had to go to another State, officials from the host State would be appointed to provide the required security, in order to avoid incurring in expenses on account of it.” On such matter, it informed that on June 18, 2007 a meeting was held at the Oficina de la Agencia del Estado (State Agency Office) headquaters, in which citizen Guerrero-Gallucci expressed her discontent with the way the measures were being implemented and that, taking her dissatisfation into account, the situation was reported to the Public Attorney, so that the necessary action could be taken. Thus, in a mmeting held on August 13, 2007 with citizen Guerrero-Gallucci, “it was agreed that for the purpose of affording the protection required by her in other states within the country, she should inform ahead of time on the possibility of her leaving the Caracas Metropolitan area, so that coordination could be effected and thus contact be established with the officials that could eventually guard her. Such information mechanism would allow that once the first displacements be effected, direct communication would be created between citizen Guerrero and the officials in charge, with a view to optimize the protection in point and to keep the Court that is seized with the matter updated on the situation.” With reference to the alleged expenses the beneficiary would have disbursed, the State expressed it has been pointed out to the officials in charge of guarding her that they should not effect expenses beyond their scope of authority and that “the citizen must coordinate with those in charge of her protection so that they may make the financial provisions necessary in order to adapt to the activities normally carried out by the citizen.”

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