ANNUAL REPORT 2019-OMBUDSMANNATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM
detained persons, despite the fact that the police officers are interested in this type of
training.
2.9.1. Material conditions
Rooms for interrogation and conversation with persons deprived
of liberty and minors
The NPM team determined that there is a special room in PS Probishtip for conducting a conversation with persons deprived of liberty, but it is not equipped with appropriate
equipment (no computer), however, conversations with persons deprived of liberty are
conducted in this room.
During the inspection of the room, the NPM team determined that the
rights of the detained, deprived of liberty and detained persons were not displayed.
The Law on Justice for Children stipulates that conversation with a child is conducted
in separate rooms suitable for conversation with a child of its age, but the NPM team
concluded that the Probishtip Police Station did not have a separate room for conversation
with minors.
Detention rooms
PS Probishtip has two renovated rooms for individual detention, with one bed each.
Both detention premises meet the standards for accommodating detainees in terms
of their size. Namely, the first detention room is 5.29 m² in size, and the second room is
5.39 m² in size. The temperature in the detention rooms is within the acceptable range of
about 23 оС, while the air humidity was around 42% RH.
The detention rooms have been recently renovated. They are in operation, but not
yet fully completed, in the context that there is no interphone for the detained persons to
communicate with the shift manager, so the communication is accomplished by a police
officer visit and talk at half-hour intervals or by calling (shouting or knocking) by the detained person.
No video surveillance system was installed in the detention premises, and
there were no instructions on the rights of the detained person.
The access to the detention premises is exclusively by stairs, more precisely the standards for access of persons with special needs are not met, and
at the same time, in PS Probishtip there is no separate rear entrance to these
premises through which the detained and detained persons would be led.
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