A/HRC/31/3/Add.2 police corruption and illegal activities denounced illegal surveillance by the police intelligence service. The High Commissioner welcomes the interest of the National Intelligence Directorate in receiving advice on integrating human rights into the curriculum for its personnel. 45. The High Commissioner welcomes the commitment made by the new Minister of Defence in June to recognize, support dialogue on and act on human rights issues. An example is the public recognition, on 28 October, of the illegality of arbitrary detention in the context of military recruitment (batidas) which had been institutional policy. Statements by the army chief on the need to modernize military doctrine and the creation of a working group on gender within the military are promising. 46. The High Commissioner considers that State, institutional and individual recognition of grave human rights violations is key for reconciliation. Security sector institutions, including their current and former members, must now publicly recognize such responsibility and visibly participate in truth, justice and reparation processes. The omission in the new historical museum focused on the Department of Administrative Security (DAS) — the former civilian intelligence agency — of references to the massive human rights violations that led to the closure of the Department calls into question government coherence in this regard. 47. The recognition by the negotiating parties in Havana that non-recurrence guarantees represent a pillar of the peace process implies, among other things, the State commitment to rationalize, reorient and strengthen security institutions towards full respect of human rights and constitutional mandates. It was agreed that the Government would address this issue. 48. Monitoring by OHCHR-Colombia and international experience indicate that any security sector reform agenda to ensure non-recurrence in Colombia should include plans to: strengthen democratic oversight by civil society and the three branches of government; create a ministry related to public security; ensure greater transparency in security sector spending to counter corruption; modernize the police to ensure it the capacity necessary to fully implement its mandate nationwide; reform the police code; apply international human rights law in all action against crime; strengthen the capacity of regional and local authorities with respect to citizen security; ensure robust civilian oversight of private security companies and civilian arms control; ensure gender integration; and vet personnel linked to human rights violations, corruption or illegal groups. In some countries, military support for internal security has become quasi-permanent, undermining the strengthening, budgets and effectiveness of the police, as well as the rule of law, and generating cycles of insecurity. 4. Archives 49. The protection of, access to and use of State and non-State human rights archives are essential for peacebuilding. Archive destruction, loss or deterioration would hamper the effective functioning of truth, justice, reparation and non-recurrence mechanisms. State action must thus be taken immediately, in particular by the Procurator-General’s Office, which is responsible for protecting administrative archives under the Victims and Land Restitution Law. The Office has taken no known measures to respond to ongoing reports of the destruction or “loss” of military archives. 50. OHCHR-Colombia received documents outside the public domain, such as a report attributed to DAS, dated July 1993, in which the following is stated: “This Unit has not conducted any operation except for routine missions by Detectives including Psychological Torture, Simple Kidnapping and Extortion.” The DAS Intelligence Plan 2003-2004 identified human rights organizations to establish “what type of political work they conduct against the State and the National Government, especially complaints at national or 10