regard, the infrastructure renovation activities planned by the ministry in 2019, including construction of buildings for administrative detention in Tbilisi, are to be noted positively.130 In 2018, compared to 2017, the number of the Public Defender’s proposals concerning institution of investigation of alleged violence by police officers is decreased. Despite the individual positive steps made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, citizens under police control are not guaranteed with sufficient safeguards against torture and other ill-treatment. For instance, it is important that the process of upgrading the video surveillance systems installed in agencies under the ministry has begun and patrol inspectors have been equipped with body cameras with improved technical specifications. However, surveillance cameras are mostly installed at the building entrance, in front of the space allocated for an officer on duty and not in those places where an arrested person, a witness or a person volunteering for an interview stay. It is clear that the video surveillance system cannot serve comprehensively as a safeguard against ill-treatment. Also, the equipment of patrol inspectors with body cameras cannot be considered enough to achieve the objective until it is statutorily determined that the police have a duty to video-record their communication with citizens. As of today, video recording depends on the desire of a patrol police officer. It should be also emphasised that agencies under the Ministry of Internal Affairs still do not guarantee such important means of legal protection as registering all persons brought to police stations indicating their status, the time of entering/leaving administrative buildings; registering when and who requested a call to family/consulate/lawyer and contacted family/consulate/lawyer. 3.1. ILL- TREATMENT BY POLICE OFFICERS In 2018, the number of the Public Defender’s proposals concerning institution of investigation on alleged violence by police officers has decreased. In particular, in 2018, the Public Defender applied to the Chief Prosecutor of Georgia with a proposal to institute investigation on alleged violence by police against citizens on 5 occasions and in 2017, on 10 occasions. Compared to 2017, the number of applications lodged with the Office of the Public Defender of Georgia concerning police ill-treatment also decreased in 2018 According to the official statistical data available on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs,131 in 2018, the number of complaints against police is reduced. In particular, compared to 2017, the number of claims of arrested persons alleging physical abuse by police is decreased by 27.132 130 We were informed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs about the activities concerning TDIs planned for 2019 during the 2018 presentation of Department of Temporary Detention Isolation on 7 February 2019. 131Information available at: https://goo.gl/EF9LCV, (accessed 04.03.2019). 132 In 2017, 283 arrested individuals brought into TDIs had claims concerning physical abuse by police; and 256 individuals in 2018. 50