Police detention centres entitled “Police doctor’s assessment of the detainee’s soundness of mind” (“Zurechnungsfähigkeit Polizeiamtsärztliches Gutachten”), dealing with substance-impaired persons and the discussion of fitness to undergo detention. XX  All police officers should be trained to recognise suicidal behaviour and risk factors at an early stage and take suicide prevention measures. XX  If a detained person is suspected of being suicide-prone, this should be documented. Information should be provided to decision-makers, and an assessment should be quickly made by a (specialised) doctor. XX  If a danger of suicide is identified, organisational measures should be taken to prevent access by the detained person to dangerous objects. XX  After a suicide (attempt), life-saving emergency measures should be taken and the rest of the rescue chain should be initiated. Crisis intervention measures should be carried out quickly with fellow prisoners. XX  After a suicide (attempt), there should be reflection on the events within a short period of time within the facility, and police and medical personnel should be invited. XX  Organisational guidelines should be issued to ensure that a standardised case analysis is made after every suicide or (thwarted) suicide attempt, to optimise prevention work. 2.6.4 Fire prevention in police detention As the result of a deadly fire at Villach police detention centre in 2015, the NPM saw a need to establish uniform nationwide requirements for fire safety systems in police detention centres (see NPM Report 2015, p. 134 et seq.). In 2016, the Dialogue Committee on Civil Society (Zivilgesellschaftliches Dialoggremium) at the Federal Ministry of the Interior decided to establish a technical group to discuss measures to improve preventive and protective fire safety (see NPM Report 2016, p. 142). This technical group began operating in April 2017 and formulated a recommendation paper in the course of three meetings. The technical group stressed the need to ensure that fire prevention at police detention centres is at the highest possible level and at the current state of the art. This includes both preventive fire safety (organisational, technical and structural fire prevention) and protective fire safety (fire extinguishing aids, staff behaviour). To this end, the scope of the Technical Guidelines for Fire Prevention N 160/11 on “Structural and technical fire protection in correctional institutions” should be extended to include police detention rooms. Long-term improvement of fire safety should be achieved through new construction or renovation. Optimisation of fire prevention 151