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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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