ANNUAL REPORT 2019-OMBUDSMANNATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM However, the NPM team, from the information received that all 4 shift managers have been newly appointed, established that it is necessary for them to undergo special thematic training for keeping persons in the Police Station and to be well acquainted with the Standard Operating Procedures for dealing with persons with restricted right to freedom of movement (detained , deprived of liberty, detained persons). 2.2.1. Material conditions Rooms for interrogation and conversation with persons deprived of liberty and minors At the Bit Pazar Police Station, there are two rooms for interrogation and conversation with summoned persons, that is detained , deprived of liberty or detained persons. The rooms are equipped with fixed tables and chairs, video surveillance cameras, and the rights of the detainees, that is, persons deprived of liberty and detained persons are accordingly announced. There are also cupboards in the premises where the forms relating to the undertaken police activities referring to the detained persons, that is, the persons deprived of liberty or detained persons are preserved. The Law on Justice for Children stipulates that a conversation with a child is conducted in special rooms suitable for conversation with a child of its age, but the NPM team established that the Bit Pazar Police Station does not have a separate room for conversation with minors. Detention rooms Bit Pazar Police Station has four individual detention rooms, which are located on the ground floor of the building and are 4.3 m² in size. The space of the detention premises is not in accordance with the standards provided for in the “Rulebook on the general norms and standards that should be met by the detention premises in the police stations of general competence in the SIA in the Public Security Bureau”, as well as the standards of the European Committee for prevention of torture (CPT) which stipulates that “police premises used for one person for a stay of more than a few hours shall be 7m² in size, 2 m in between the walls and 2.5 m in between the floor and the ceiling.” In the premises there is also a system for calling and communicating of the detained person with the shift manager in the Police Station, but it did not function in any of the premises. Namely, this system was visibly damaged, that is, the electrical installation was detached, which could be used as a means of self-harm. 26

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