- 90 APPENDIX SUMMARY OF THE CPT'S RECOMMENDATIONS, COMMENTS AND REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION A. Police establishments 1. Preliminary remarks requests for information - comments on the information received to the effect that, in some cases, a period considerably in excess of 24 hours might elapse before a person arrested by the police is brought before a public prosecutor (paragraph 14). 2. Torture and other forms of ill-treatment recommendations - a very high priority to be given to human rights education for police officers of all ranks and categories as well as to training in modern investigation techniques. Experts not belonging to the police force to be involved in this education and training (paragraph 28); - an aptitude for interpersonal communication to be a major factor in the process of recruiting police officers and considerable emphasis to be placed on acquiring and developing interpersonal communication skills during the training of such officers (paragraph 28); - the operation of State forensic medical services in Greece to be reviewed in the light of the remarks made in paragraph 32 (paragraph 32). comments - it is highly important for the relevant national authorities as well as senior police officers to deliver the clear message that the ill-treatment of detained persons is not acceptable and will be dealt with severely (paragraph 29). requests for information - detailed information on the length and content of police training (paragraph 28); - a copy of circular N 4808/4/76 of 28 July 1993 (paragraph 29); - for the period 1990 to 1993, the number of cases in which public prosecutors have instituted criminal proceedings for ill-treatment by the police of detained persons (paragraph 30);