A/HRC/14/44 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (b) The reform of the National Police should be continued in order to improve its work and combat the internal slippage of standards; (c) The vetting of police officers should be resumed following the recovery of the back-ups of computerized data; (d) The joint operations with UNPOL should be continued in order to secure the boundaries of the camps and the high-risk zones and thus prevent the reemergence of no-go areas which the police are reluctant to enter. 100. In the case of the justice system the independent expert recommends that: (a) The President of the Court of Cassation should be appointed forthwith or the current Vice-President should be appointed to the post ad interim; (b) The Supreme Council of the Judiciary should be established and furnished with the trained human resources and the funding to operate entirely independently and proceed to recruit judges without further delay; (c) judges. A start should be made on the programme for the initial training of 101. Where the prisons are concerned, the independent expert recommends a continued effort, in the context of the prison rebuilding programme, to achieve the separation of convicted prisoners from untried detainees by building holding centres for untried detainees and prisons for convicts. 102. The independent expert recommends that close attention should be given to the development of the activities of the Office of the Ombudsman, in particular that: (a) The Office should be allocated a budget and human resources to set up regional branches; (b) The Office’s role as a human rights oversight mechanism should be strengthened in order to encourage people to view it as a means of recourse against any legal abuses which they feel they have suffered. 103. When it comes to combating corruption, the independent expert recommends that: (a) Measures should be introduced for waging an effective campaign against corruption and thus demonstrating that combating corruption is becoming a major focus of the Government; (b) Particular attention should be paid in the fight against corruption to the management of humanitarian aid funds. 104. With regard to devolution/decentralization the independent expert recommends that: (a) Efforts should be made to provide equal access to rights for all Haitians; (b) The planned decentralization arrangements should be put in place, followed by measures of devolution and budget oversight. 22 GE.10-13204 (EXT)

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