ANNUAL REPORT 2019-OMBUDSMANNATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM
From the inspection, the NPM team concluded that no video surveillance was installed in the detention premises, as provided in the Rulebook on the general norms and
standards that should be met by the detention premises in the police stations of general
competence, which leads to the impossibility of monitoring the condition of the detained
persons in the detention premises.
The police station does not have special rooms for keeping children, as provided by
the Law on Justice for Children.
Sanitary node
Within the Police Station Kratovo there are separate toilets for the detained persons
and for the employed officials. The sanitary node, intended for the detained persons, is
not properly performed, that is, it is located within the detention premises themselves and
is common for the two rooms.
The toilet is located in the hallway before entering the detention premises, it is not
adequately protected or enclosed, so its use leads to humiliating treatment of detainees,
given that the people who use it are exposed to direct observation by officials. Thereby,
the access to the detention premises is exclusively through this toilet, which directly endangers the right to intimacy and privacy of the detained persons.
2.7.2. Realization of the rights of the detained
persons
In the Police Station, posters with the rights of the summoned persons, persons
deprived of liberty and detained persons, as well as the persons, victims of criminal offenses in several languages are displayed in several places. At the entrance of the police
station there is a box for sending complaints and grievances from citizens to the Sector for
Internal Control and Professional Standards, and in the hallway of the Police Station there
is: a poster with stated rights of the summoned, detained and detained persons in seven
languages, as well as the Code of Police Ethics.
The NPM team was informed by the Assistant Commander that the detainees and
persons deprived of their freedom at the Police Station were also informed about the right
to call a defence counsel, to inform a third party about their detention, that is deprivation
of liberty, as well as about the right seek medical attention.
The summoned, detainees and persons deprived of liberty, in the conditions when
they want to use the right to call a defence counsel, also have at their disposal the list of
lawyers registered in the Lawyer’s Register issued by the Bar Association and kept in the
Police Station.
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