2.6 Police detention centres...................................................................................142
2.6.1 Introduction.......................................................................................142
2.6.2
Working group on conditions of detention in
police detention centres.....................................................................142
2.6.3
Working group on suicide prevention...............................................149
2.6.4
Fire prevention in police detention...................................................151
2.6.5
Deficits at Vordernberg detention centre...........................................154
2.6.6
Holding asylum seekers in closed detention.....................................156
2.6.7
Inadequate documentation of detentions.........................................157
2.6.8
Positive observation...........................................................................158
2.7 Police stations..................................................................................................159
2.7.1 Introduction.......................................................................................159
2.7.2
Light switches in detention rooms at police stations........................160
2.7.3
Lack of discretion during examinations by (public)
health officers....................................................................................161
2.7.4
Basement detention rooms at police stations...................................162
2.7.5
Barrier-free sanitory facilities for visitors..........................................163
2.7.6
Inadequate documentation of detentions.........................................164
2.7.7
Inadequate personnel levels at police stations.................................165
2.7.8
Inadequate equipment at police stations.........................................166
2.7.9
Calling in a biased interpreter..........................................................168
2.7.10 Misuse of detention room as smoking area......................................169
2.7.11 Positive observations.........................................................................169
2.8 Coercive acts....................................................................................................170
2.8.1 Introduction.......................................................................................170
2.8.2
NPM participates in returns by air....................................................171
2.8.3
No notice of police actions to NPM...................................................171
2.8.4
Observations of demonstrations.......................................................172
2.8.5
(Forced) returns..................................................................................173
2.8.6
Targeted campaigns..........................................................................174
2.8.7
Positive observations.........................................................................175
3.3 Recommendations of the Austrian National Preventive Mechanism (NPM).........177
3.1 Retirement and nursing homes.......................................................................177
3.2 Hospitals and psychiatric clinics.....................................................................181
3.3 Child and youth welfare facilities...................................................................187
3.4 Institutions and facilities for persons with disabilities....................................191