106 The Reception Center for Foreigners will, in the annex for accommodating males, improve the hygiene condition of the dormitories by doing hygienic painting, replacing the worn-out cassettes for keeping personal belongings, as well as the worn-out sanitary facilities. The Reception Center for Foreigners will carry out available measures to encourage the persons in the Reception Center to maintain personal hygiene, as well as hygiene in the place where they reside and will create conditions for cleaning by providing the necessary means and equipment. The position of NPM position is that in the new Instructions, in addition to the above, should include the provisions on personal items that a foreigner who resides in the Reception Center can keep with himself / herself, and about the way of keeping the temporarily seized items, as well as provisions on how to exercise and protect the rights to protect them (the possibility and method of addressing the police officers to exercise their rights and the possibility to complain to the head of the Reception Center, if a foreigner finds that his or her Human or minority rights and freedoms have been violated by acting or by failing to act of an employee when performing official duties). Furthermore, having in mind that the current Instructions stipulate that a foreigner may take a bath at least twice a week during the summer and once a week during the winter period, which is insufficient to maintain a good level of hygiene, the new Instructions require more frequent bathing. Also, enabling the visit of a priest should not be conditioned by the existence of a large number of foreigners of the same religion, as the case is currently, but every and every stranger should be allowed to, within the house rules of the Reception Center have a visit and a conversation with a priest. The Ministry of Interior will ensure that forms of record on the release of a foreigner from the Reception Centre, certificates of temporarily seized objects from a foreign person, and a form about the rights of a foreigner are translated and made available in languages ​​understood by the majority of foreigners residing in the Reception Center (English, Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, etc.). The Ministry of Interior will, in cases of the necessity of clear and precise communication between the Reception Centre and Health Workers’ employees working with foreigners who do not understand the Serbian or English language, provide the interpreters for the language that they understand. The Ministry of Interior will amend the Instruction on the treatment of brought in and detained persons by prescribing that the means of binding will be used only when it is really necessary, and not always when transporting each person, as currently prescribed. At the Reception Centre for Foreigners, the police officers will not always tie each person while providing their transport in the official vehicle, but will do so only when they consider it necessary, where prescribed by the law. An authorized police officer at the Reception Centre for Foreigners will check every use of coercive means by police officers working in the Reception Center and assess whether the coercive means in a specific case is used justly and correctly. The Ministry of Interior will provide in the Reception Center for Foreigners the provision of continuous health care to foreigners residing in this institution. Medical records and records on the treatment of foreigners will be handled by a healthcare worker, and the data from health records and records will not be available to non-medical staff.

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