b. Furthermore, this Department is going to proceed to the construction of a new place of detention, in order for the needs in this area to be fully covered. In regard to the Committee’s recommendations on this matter, we would like to inform you the following: 1. On the matter of the supervision by public prosecutors of the preliminary investigations undertaken by police officers in criminal cases (para.18, pp.23-24, CPT Report and page 58, Appendix I thereto), we would like to inform you that according to the investigation undertaken by investigating officers of the Hellenic Police Forces is subject to the directions of the public prosecutor of the Court of Magistrates, who is entitled to attend all investigating procedures, either in person or by one of the deputy public prosecutors under his command, and to take knowledge at any time of all documents refereeing to the investigation (articles 31 and 33). Therefore, the present statutory framework adequately covers this case. It stands to reason that the attendance of public prosecutors in all the preliminary investigation activities of the investigating police officers is practically impossible, given the limited number of prosecution officers. 2. With regard to the Committee’s recommendation for the establishment of a separate formal Code of Behavior effective in the case of preliminary investigations conducted by investigating police officers (para.93, pp.64-65, CPT Report and page 65, Appendix I thereto). We would to inform you that this matter has been covered in detail in our document Ref.No 4803/22/1 of 22 May 1997 addressed to the Ministry of Public Order, Direction of International Police Co-operation, which is hereto attached. Note is made, however, that given the current legislation (Code of Criminal Procedure articles 33 et.seq.), any special statutory regulation referring to such a Code would have to include the procedure of the judicial investigation and regulate the conduct of all investigating officers, without being limited to the conduct of police officers. We believe that both the review of this particular recommendation of the Committee and the overall handling of the matter as well as the recommended in the First C.P.T. Report (CPT/Inf (94) 20, par.46) supplementation of Article 137 of the Page 8