- 57 APPENDIX I LIST OF THE CPT’S RECOMMENDATIONS, COMMENTS AND REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION A. Law enforcement agencies Ill-treatment recommendations - all law enforcement officials, including Coast Guard officers, to be vigorously reminded in an appropriate manner and at regular intervals, that the ill-treatment of detained persons is not acceptable and that such conduct will be severely sanctioned; in this context, the attention of law enforcement officials to be drawn to the provisions of Articles 137A, 137B and 137C of the Criminal Code, dealing with torture and ill-treatment by state agents (paragraph 16); - the Greek authorities to seek to integrate human rights concepts into practical professional training for high-risk situations, such as the arrest and questioning of suspects (paragraph 17); - whenever criminal suspects brought before a prosecutor or judge allege ill-treatment by law enforcement officials, the prosecutor/judge to record the allegations in writing, order immediately a forensic medical examination and take the necessary steps to ensure that the allegations are properly investigated; such an approach to be followed whether or not the person concerned bears visible external injuries; even in the absence of an express allegation of ill-treatment, the prosecutor/judge to request a forensic medical examination whenever there are other grounds to believe that a person brought before the prosecutor/judge could have been the victim of ill-treatment (paragraph 19); - appropriate steps to be taken to ensure that persons who may have been victims of illtreatment by law enforcement officials are not dissuaded from lodging a formal complaint (paragraph 19); - persons who are taken into police custody and subsequently released without being brought before a public prosecutor or judge to be able themselves to solicit a medical examination/certificate from a forensic institute (paragraph 20); - a system of regular visits to law enforcement agency establishments by an independent authority to be established, having regard to the remarks in paragraph 22 (paragraph 22).