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I/II – 2 – Police Directorate for the City of Pančevo and its Police Stations162:
Taking into account that detention facilities at the headquarters of the Police Directorate for the City of
Pančevo meet applicable standards, persons detained under the provisions of the Criminal Procedure
Code shall not be exclusively detained in the already overcrowded District Prison in Pančevo. Persons
detained under the Criminal Procedure Code shall be placed in the District Prison in Pančevo only if
detention facilities of the Pančevo Police Directorate are occupied.
The Police Directorate for the City of Pančevo shall take adequate and efficient measures in order to
provide the renovation and adaptation of the detention facilities in its police stations in accordance
with the applicable standards, while the existing detention premises shall not be used until adequately
adapted for the purpose of police detention.
In the police stations within the Pančevo Police Directorate offices shall not be used for detention lasting
hours. Detention shall take place in specialized detention premises; therefore it is necessary to provide
for an adequate adaptation of the premises as soon as possible.
The Police Directorate for the City of Pančevo shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the
recordings from video cameras are stored for a period of not less than 30 days.
Medical examination of persons detained by the police shall be carried out so that police officers are
not able to hear the conversation, and, unless required otherwise by the physician performing medical
examination, see the medical examination. The doctor’s official note containing the results of medical
examination, statement of a person deprived of liberty, objective findings and conclusions on the
consistency between statement made and the objective findings should be available to the detainee
and his lawyer.
Police stations within the Pančevo Police Directorate shall improve the fire protection system by posting
evacuation plan together with the fire instructions in visible locations within the buildings of the police
stations, for the purpose of protecting physical integrity of the detainees.
The Police Directorate for the City of Pančevo and its police stations shall organize and carry out an
appropriate first aid training for police officers, and provide first aid box for their premises.
All objects that are not a part of a standard equipment shall be removed from the premises intended
for interrogation or confinement of the detainees (it is also necessary to remove non-standard items
from the cassettes and cabinets, where they can be easily accessed). All objects confiscated as material
evidence during the course of criminal investigation will be inventoried in a separate record, properly
marked (labeling the police case number) and stored in separate storage places.
I/II – 3 – Police Directorate for the City of Sremska
Mitrovica and its Police Stations163:
The Police Directorate for the City of Sremska Mitrovica and its police stations shall ensure that all
persons detained under the provisions of the Law on Police, the Criminal Procedure Code, the Law on
Misdemeanours and the Law on Road Traffic Safety, are delivered written notice of their rights.
Written notice containing information about the rights of the detainees, besides both in Cyrillic and
Latin alphabets, shall be also available in English and in the languages of the national minorities.
Police officers shall attend a medical examination only at the explicit request of the physician, on which
an official note shall be made.
Police officers shall not have access to medical documentation of detainees, nor the documentation
shall be kept, either as originals or photocopies, within the detention record.
162 Report on the visit to Police Directorate in Pančevo, March 2013, 71-7/13.
163 Report on the visit to the Police Directorate in Sremska Mitrovica, September 2013, 71-61/13.
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