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. 60

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