ANNUAL REPORT 2019-OMBUDSMANNATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM Raview no.16 Overview of recommendations given to PS Shtip Recommendations Response upon recommendation To put into operation a special part with two rooms for reception of detained and detained persons and conversation and interrogation of these persons; The Police Station of General Competence Shtip already has a special space in which it has built two reception rooms that are provided with video surveillance and can serve for the reception of citizens and conducting informative talks with them, but due to lack of office space, because with the establishment of the Centre for Notification and Command (CNC) at SIA Shtip in one of the offices in the Police Station of General Competence Shtip where the guides of the security zones were located, in the fourth and fifth security zone, the CNC is located, so they were moved to one of the reception rooms for citizens, so at the moment only the office for reception of citizens in which the inspector for admissionshift manager in the Police Station of General Competence Shtip works is operational. . Response by the Public Security Bureau In relation to the stated recommendations, the Police Station of General Competence Shtip submitted to the SIA Shtip a request dated 29.01.2020 for overcoming the ascertained shortcomings of the visit of the NPM, that is, in order to put a separate part with two rooms for the reception of detainees and detained persons and conversation and interrogation with them into operation a spatial solution in the building of SIA Shtip should be found for relocation of the office of Guides of security zones in another office, which would free the reception and conversation offices with the detained and detained persons and the special entrance would be put into operation There are no reasons for the special entrance for detained and persons deprived of liberty not to be put into operation, but there is a problem with lack of persons for admission - shift managers because based on the systematization of job positions it is envisaged that PS of GC Shtip has 5 shift managers, and currently there are only 2 shift managers, which is why it is impossible to enable a 24-hour coverage of the space and the office, so in the periods when there are no shift managers, this space would remain uncovered and without the presence of officials. To put into operation the special entrance for detainees or persons deprived of liberty 70