2.7.1. Material conditions
Rooms for interrogation and conversation with persons deprived
of liberty and minors
PS Kratovo does not have special rooms for interrogation and conversation with summoned, that is, detained, deprived of liberty or detained persons,
hence, conversations with these persons are conducted in the office of the shift
manager.
From the inspection of this room, the NPM team realized that flyers in several languages are neatly displayed, for the rights of the persons deprived of liberty.
The Law on Justice for Children stipulates that a conversation with a child is conducted in special rooms suitable for conversation with a child, but the Kratovo Police Station
does not have such a room.
In this regard, the NPM team was informed that the conversations with the children
are conducted in the official offices of the inspectors in charge of juvenile delinquency or
in the office of the shift manager.
Detention rooms
The NPM team realized that PS Kratovo has two rooms for detention of people, and
they are located on the ground floor of the building. One room is for individual detention
and has one bed, and the second room is for collective accommodation and it contains
two beds.
The room for individual detention has dimensions of 4,48 m², and the NPM team
determined that it does not meet the minimum standards for the size of the room for
individual detention, while the room for collective accommodation has dimensions of 9,87
m², and meets the minimum standards for room size for collective detention.
From the performed inspection, the NPM team concluded that in the detention rooms,
there is a low flow of natural daylight. Namely, although the rooms have direct access to
daylight through windows, they are so high that they require additional artificial lighting
throughout the day in order to be fully lit. There is no special exhaust fan for air purification in the detention rooms, but the ventilation takes place through the flow of air through
the windows, the glass of which was broken in both rooms.
According to the NPM team, the fact that there is no heating system in the
detention rooms is of particular concern, and at the same time there is no possibility to install radiators, due to lack of electrical infrastructure.
The NPM team also found that there was a system for calling and communicating the
detained person in the detention premises. However, on the day of the visit, it was not in
a functional condition.
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