ولا شك أن رجال الشرطة وسائر المسؤولين والسلطات بالهيئات الإصلاحية الذين لو علموا أن سلوكهم قد يكون مراقباً في أي وقت من طرف هيئات الرصد الداخلية والخارجية، فإنهم سيميلون إلى التقيد بالقواعد والإجراءات السارية المتعلقة بالاعتقال والاحتجاز.
Focused visits by independent multidisciplinary teams of experts to places of detention had proved to be a most effective way to prevent torture. Law enforcement officials and other detention personnel and authorities who were aware that their behaviour might be scrutinized at any point by internal and external monitoring bodies were certainly much more inclined to follow existing rules and procedures pertaining to arrest and detention.