CAT/OP/ARM/1/Add.1 4 of Article 21 of RA Law on “The treatment of arrestees and detainees” has been prepared, provided that mentioned Article must be supplemented with the new part, the content of which is the following “Administrations of places of arrest and detention organize mandatory medical examination of arrestees and detainees after taking them under arrest and detention”. III. Ministry of Education and Science 11. According to the Ministry of Education and Science the expression “Special boarding schools” is used in the report. In the Republic of Armenia there are Special secondary educational institutions, which in accordance with the legislation of RA are of the type of educational institutions where children are accepted by parent application. The teaching process in those institutions is organized on the basic of extended and boarding timeline according to the agreement signed with the parents. Totally 70% of pupils are enrolled in the extended and only 30% in the boarding timeline. All pupils live with their families; they just have special educational needs. Parents as well as civil society representatives are allowed to attend school without additional permits. Pupils studying in special secondary educational institutions cannot be considered as “individuals detained or restricted from freedom”. 12. So, special secondary educational institutions cannot be considered as “institutional” organization, type of “detention center” or “closed or semi-closed institution”. IV. Police of the Republic of Armenia 13. Police of the Republic of Armenia informed that it is consistent with the international obligations in the field of torture prevention. Police of the Republic of Armenia carried out a complex of measures for this purpose both in legislative and practical levels. In each case of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and prevention, the reports of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the United Nations, as well as other related international standards are taken into account. 14. In regard with the above mentioned, the unique significance has the draft of the new Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia, which is presently in the Parliament of the Republic of Armenia where the standards of the European Court for Human Rights and of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture are taken into account. The special place and effective guarantees are established in the draft for the arrested persons from the date of their arrest for the effective implementation of their rights. 15. The Police officers in all units by means of instructions and special courses are regularly informed that any display of ill-treatment cannot be used to obtain a confession of person’s participation in committing crime or other information. The rude, disrespectful behavior of police officers, especially torture and inhuman or degrading treatment in any case becomes the subject of wide discussion; the perpetrators shall be subjected to strict disciplinary action, including the criminal responsibility. In the view of the above mentioned, as well as in order to strengthen public confidence towards police the headquarters of police of the Republic of Armenia has developed the recommendation No: 20-C “Ensuring the enforcement of legal standards of the European Committee on torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment prevention” and has presented it to the head of Police of the Republic of Armenia for signing. 16. In order to enhance the effectiveness of the places of keeping arrested persons and in order to increase the professional preparedness of the staff, during 2013, the seminarconsultations have been organized with the participation of the representatives of the 5