Implementation of the Duties and Powers of the National Preventive Mechanism in 2012 • Mistakes in the registering of accurate data regarding detentions in the FIO register were noticed (in PS Ormož, PS Rače, PS Rogaška Slatina). It was communicated by the Ministry of the Interior that irregularities were eliminated, and that police officers were warned about the need for consistency and accuracy when registering data in the register on detained persons. • It was not possible to find out from the official note on detention who informed a foreigner about his/her rights in a language understandable to him/her or whether an interpreter had been provided for this person (in PS Rače, PS Rogaška Slatina). It was proposed by the NPM for such cases that, in the future, in the detention of foreigners, a piece of information regarding the notification of the said persons with rights of a detained person with the assistance of an interpreter should also be recorded, for example, in a section on an official note with the heading Notes, or in a manner, that it is easily established how a person was actually notified about his/her rights. In regard to a procedure regarding a foreign national carried out by police officers in PS Rogaška Slatina, the Ministry of the Interior communicated that the foreigner in question was actually informed about his rights in Slovenian which was well understood by him (the entire procedure with the said person was carried out in Slovenian). • In official notes and orders on detention, sections referring to the right or the option that a detained person may notify relatives and an advocate of his/her detention were not filled in; the same also applies to the section on the option to notify an employer within the decision on detention (in PS Gorišnica). The Ministry of the Interior communicated that police officers were reminded about the consistent filling in of all sections in official notes and decisions on detention, as proposed by the NPM. • Inaccurate time frames regarding a procedure with a detained person (in PS Rogaška Slatina) were discovered. In this case, it was again communicated by the Ministry of the Interior that police units were warned about the need for consistency and accuracy in filling in the official documents and the entry of data in the register of persons in detention. • It was not clear from an official note kept by the police station (PS Gorišnica) when a detention was concluded for a person, nor when and to whom a person was handed over for further processing (it was established according to the documentation, that the police station carried out the detention procedure for the PS Ptuj). It was proposed by the NPM that, in the future, in cases when a police station carries out detention for another police station, it is recorded in the official register when a detained person has been handed over from the rooms for detention and to whom (a police officer, a criminal police officer), and then it is verified with the unit managing the procedure of the person in question when the procedure has been concluded and this data is then registered in the official note on detention kept by the police station. National Preventive Mechanism in the Republic of Slovenia under the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 47