International's Middle East and North Africa programme, said, "moreover, the terms of the King's decree make clear that they will have the authority to carry out a full investigation" and added that "appointment of this international commission appears to represent nothing less than a sea change in Bahrain". Implementation of the BICI's recommendations The BICI report gave a series of recommendations to the government of steps that it believed would improve accountability and bring government practice in line with international standards. The government gave itself a target of implementing these recommendations by the end of February 2012. The implementation progress of these recommendations is recorded on the govactions website. As far as the general recommendations are concerned, the government claims that it has implemented the following recommendations: 1715: the implementation program. A royal order on 26 November 2011 established the implementation commission, which was independent and consisted of 19 members. 1716: creating a government accountability mechanism. A team comprising Sir Daniel Bethlehem QC, Sir Jeffrey Jowell QC, Professor Adnan Amkhan, Professor Sarah Cleveland and David Perry QC provided their advice on the establishment of a Special Investigations Unit that is tasked with determining accountability. 1717: to create an ombudsman at the Ministry of Interior and a police Code of Conduct. A decree establishing both the Ombudsman and the Internal Affairs department was issued on 28 February 2012. 1718: reorganisation of the National Security Agency and National Safety situations. A decree on 28 November 2011 made the NSA an intelligence gathering agency with no law enforcement and arrest powers. In December 2011 the cabinet approved legislative amendments that ensure that arrests of persons will be in accordance with the Code of Criminal Procedure even in the state of national safety. 1719: to undertake investigations into torture claims. On 8 January 2012, the Cabinet approved legislative amendments "that give the Attorney General the exclusive jurisdiction to investigate claims of torture and other forms of inhuman treatment"; and "protecting persons from any retribution for raising a claim of torture or other forms of cruel or inhuman treatment". Technical assistance is provided by the UNODC, amongst others. 1720: to review all convictions and sentences rendered by the National Security Courts. All live cases are "being reviewed in the ordinary courts to ensure fair trial rights have been complied with in cases before the National Safety Courts (NSC)". BICI and the Bahrain Centre for Human