A/HRC/45/CRP.11 OLHP intended to capture two alleged criminals operating in the sector, but it seems they managed to escape before the operation began.2182 1223. Digital information confirms that State forces deployed considerable logistical and human resources in the operation. According to one estimate, there were 240 officers deployed.2183 The Mission has verified videos showing dozens of PNB officers (including the Anti-Drug and Intelligence and Strategy Directorates), the GNB (including CONAS), the CICPC and the DGCIM in various points of the sector.2184 1224. Some wore official vests over civilian clothes. Others were in uniform with helmets, protective shields and balaclavas. They carried short firearms (Beretta 92CF and 92FS pistols, Glock 17 with long magazine) and long firearms (Colt M-4A1, Cavim Orinoco IItype rifles with silencer and H&K MP5, with and without silencer). The videos also depict vans with CICPC and PNB official logos, along with dozens of motorcycles. 2185 1225. In one video verified and geo-located by the Mission,2186 six snipers were seen stationed in one of the neighbourhood homes and dozens of young men can be observed being detained, some with their faces covered with T-shirts, others barefoot.2187 The video also captures the arrest of a woman amidst the male detainees. 2188 The video shows security forces carrying the dead body of a man by the ankles and wrists, before dumping it into the flatbed of a truck.2189 The man’s body is partially covered by a white sheet. The security forces carrying him appeared to belong to the PNB and have “Dirección de Inteligencia Estratégica” written on the back of their vests. 2190 1226. During the operation, DGCIM agents could be seen wearing skull masks, some black and others green, supposedly to protect their identity.2191 These images featured heavily in media broadcasts, prompting CICPC director, Douglas Rico, to issue a directive prohibiting CICPC officers from covering their faces during acts of service, “since this generates distrust in the community and often protects police malpractice. The transparency of our work goes hand in hand with our personal and institutional image”.2192 1227. According to a news outlet, when the OLHP was over, nine people had been killed and more than 60 detained.2193 Several witnesses reported damage to their properties.2194 2182 2183 2184 2185 2186 2187 2188 2189 2190 2191 2192 2193 2194 242 RunRun.es, Nueve muertos y 50 detenidos tras despliegue de OLP en los Jardines del Valle, 10 March 2017, available at: https://runrun.es/nacional/venezuela-2/300395/al-menos-9-abatidos-y-50detenidos-tras-despliegue-de-olp-en-los-jardines-de-el-valle/. Noticiero Venevisión, Ultimaron a ocho antisociales durante OLHP en El Valle, 10 March 2017, minute 0:24, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVWQtiCoF1g. See also: Globovisión, OLP deja siete delincuentes abatidos y 16 detenidos en El Valle, minute 1:44, 10 March 2017, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti6cs5lAyK4. Compilation of videos on file with the Mission. Iguana TV, Imágenes exclusivas comando OLHP en El Valle, 10 March 2017, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-McSzvlLCg. See videos published by the journalist Román Camacho on his twitter account, available at https://runrun.es/nacional/venezuela-2/300395/al-menos9-abatidos-y-50-detenidos-tras-despliegue-de-olp-en-los-jardines-de-el-valle/. Iguana TV, Imágenes exclusivas comando OLHP en El Valle, 10 March 2017, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-McSzvlLCg. Ibid., minutes 1:57 and 2:31. Ibid., minute 2:10. Ibid., minute 2:34. Ibid., minute 2:34. TVV, Militar venezolano usa máscara durante operativo de seguridad, 14 March 2017, minute 0:09, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjmhhayBebw. Notitotal, Prohíben el uso de máscaras y pasamontañas a funcionarios en servicio, 22 March 2017, video on file with the Mission. Aporrea, Nueve muertos dejó operativo policial en los Jardines del Valle, Caracas, 10 March 2017, available at: https://www.aporrea.org/ddhh/n305273.html. Document C4FF14 on file with the Mission, in which one neighbour said that: “I looked out the window and saw that in front of my house there were some officials dressed in black going inside the neighbours’ house. They were knocking down the neighbour’s doors. I watched what was going on”. Another resident of the neighbourhood confirmed that he “Watched from the house that the officials were breaking down the bars of the neighbour’s houses”.