A/HRC/27/48 enter temporary detention isolators without any authorization. The 2013 Development Strategy for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia acknowledges the importance of monitoring those isolators, inter alia, through independent oversight bodies. A ministerial order of 17 May 2013 approved a new Police Code of Ethics and a directive for staff at those isolators. At the beginning of 2013, the duration of the basic training courses for police officers was doubled from three to six months and those courses include human rights subjects in their curricula. New methods for testing and interviewing candidates have been introduced. Riot, patrol, border and criminal police officers must be retrained periodically in order to improve their qualifications, particularly in the human rights area. 39. During the period 2012–2013, 146 investigations were launched into cases of illtreatment cases; 48 persons were prosecuted, including the former head of the Penitentiary Department and several directors of prisons; 21 persons have been convicted. During the first nine months of 2013, 74 meetings with prisoners were held in various penitentiary facilities. Nine investigations for bodily injury were launched following prisoners’ applications. A variety of mechanisms for raising concerns and the transmission of complaints are available to detainees. The Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia, the Public Defender’s Office and the General Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs can be contacted at any moment. 40. The Government further reported that the duration of basic training courses for officers of the Patrol Police Department and the Border Police have been extended from 12 to 20 weeks and from 6 to 14 weeks, respectively. The courses are aimed at ensuring proper protection of the human rights of asylum seekers and other persons in need. 41. The first set of procedural law amendments aimed at enhancing the principle of adversariality were drafted in 2012. In accordance with the Working Group’s recommendation, the amendments are aimed at ensuring equality of arms between the defence and the prosecution in criminal proceedings. The amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code were submitted to the Parliament of Georgia in June 2013. A new code on administrative offences is being drafted. Senegal 42. The Government of Senegal reported that the rule of habeas corpus is well present in the criminal legislation of Senegal. Article 91 of the Constitution makes the judiciary the guardian of rights and freedoms. The principle of the independence of the judiciary is established in its article 88. The assistance of a lawyer is mandatory only in criminal matters. A legal aid fund is available. 43. Following a judgement in a criminal matter, a detainee may be sentenced to alternative prison measures (contrainte par corps), in addition to the award of damages and interest to the civil party, or fines. That applies in criminal matters exclusively, however, and never in civil cases. Alternative prison measures (contrainte par corps) are carefully regulated by the Criminal Procedure Code in its articles 7.9 and following. 44. The Organic Law of 2008 on the Supreme Court provides in its article 4 for the establishment of a commission to compensate persons who have spent several years in preventive detention. However, no regime has been formulated to regulate the application of the law. 45. The decree regulating prisons provides for disciplinary cells reserved for recalcitrant inmates and disruptive prisoners. In Senegal, detainees are subjected to disciplinary measures only exceptionally, however. The police misconduct which marked the 2012 presidential election campaign is currently the subject of judicial proceedings. A dozen gendarmes and police officers are being held in places of detention. 16