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b.14 Intensify capacity building of police officers at the police station level, including
jailers, on human rights based approached to prison management;
b.15 Strengthen HRAO desks in all police stations; and
b.16 Reactivate the human rights program for detainees.
c. DOJ (PAO)
c.1 Provide detainees sufficient information on legal remedies and free legal
representation available to him/her; and
c.2 To establish rotational assignments of PAO lawyers in every police station to
provide free legal assistance to detainees and arrested persons.
d. DOH
d.1 Intensify participation or commitment in rendering medical services to PDL.
e. Law Schools
e.1 Provide paralegal services to PDL through legal aid clinics as part of law
students’ internship program.
f. CHR
f.1 Draft a monitoring tool specifically for PNP lock-up cells; and
f.2 Establish a paralegal program.
g. Congress
g.1 Appropriate sufficient resources to the PNP lock-up cells in order that they may
be compliant to the UN Standard Minimum Rules on the Treatment of Prisoners
subject to regular monitoring mechanism;
g.2 Allocate regular budget for the daily meal subsistence of detainees and other
basic needs of detainees, taking into account the inflation in the prices of
commodities and the consumer price index;
g.3 Create more courts to speed up the disposition of cases;