ANNUAL REPORT 2019-OMBUDSMANNATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM 2.1.1. Material conditions Rooms for interrogation and conversation with persons deprived of their freedom and minorsа At the Karposh Police Station there are two rooms for interrogation and conversation with summoned, that is detained , deprived of liberty or detained persons. The premises 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. The Law on Justice for Children stipulates that conversation with a child is conducted in special premises suitable for conversation with a child of its age, but the NPM team concluded that the Karposh Police Station did not have a separate room for conversation with minors at its disposal. From the conversation with the shift manager, the NPM team was informed that the conversations with the children are performed in the official offices of the inspectors of juvenile delinquency, while the inspector with whom the conversation was conducted pointed out that most of the conversations with children are performed in the shift manager’s office and in exceptional circumstance in their offices, as well. Detention rooms The Karposh Police Station has 2 detention rooms, which are used for individual accommodation of detained persons, one of which has an area of 4.7 m², and the second of 5.8 m². The square surface of the detention rooms is not in accordance with the standards provided in the “Rulebook on 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” where it is provided that the floor area has to be 9 m², if the room is intended for the detention of one person, and for each subsequent detained person additional 3 m², as well as the standards of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), which stipulate that “the police premises used for one person staying for more than a few hours should be 7m² in size, 2 m distance in between the walls and 2.5 m in between the floor and the ceiling.” In the detention rooms there is a metal fixed bed, equipped with mattresses and dirty bedding (mattress cover, blanket and pillow). The rooms are located in the left ground part of the station, and they are separated from the other offices by security iron doors with openings at the top of the doors and at the bottom with security metal parts. In the detention premises there is a system for calling and communicating of the 20