38 THE GREEK OMBUDSMAN has persistently recommended for all police stations that the inside of the cells is cleaned by the Station’s sanitary service, isolating one cell at a time, instead of the practice of assigning cleaning to prisoners. • The Police Station cells, lacking any yard access, are not suitable for administrative detention of aliens awaiting return. Under L. 3907/2011 administrative detention in principle requires special premises, in accordance with the standards set in article 31 thereof. • Regarding guarding, the Ombudsman observes that assigning this duty to the building’s gate guard is ineffective. With a view to better safeguarding detainees’ rights, as well as to ensuring security, we recommend that a different guard is placed for the detention cells. Port Police cells of Igoumenitsa (20th October 2017) The Port Police’s cells are located away from the Agency’s office space, outside of the urban fabric. The premises were problematic in whole and basic fundamental shortages apparent. There were three separate fenced parts (separate premises) on an open outdoor field: a) a building for adult men, b) a building for minors and c a container for women. At the time of the inspection, there were 11 adult male detainees and 3 minors. i. - Detention spaces for adults, male and female There were two cells, in a very bad shape, due to damages, inadequate cleaning, malodor and overcrowding. Cells allowed full visual contact of detainees and no privacy, as one side of them (the one next to the corridor and facing the opposite cell) had floor-to-ceiling bars for its full length. The space was quite dark, with insufficient natural light. Two small windows placed high in one of the outer walls had been rendered useless by addition of a foreign object (one of them is used for the heating pipeline). There was central air conditioning installed. Inside each cell there was a toilet, in very bad shape at the time of inspection, completely lacking in hygiene. As confirmed by the security staff, toilets are never cleaned by a sanitation service, nor are any cleaning products provided to the detainees themselves (lest they are used for different purposes, e.g. self-harm). The cell itself was in similar shape, malodorous and dirty, as it is never cleaned. It is worth noting that, despite the harbourmaster’s assurance of regular cleaning of the premises by an outsource cleaning service, this cleaning was in fact limited to the corridor area, as was obvious by the inspection, but also confirmed by the staff. The cells had no showers. Inside each cell there were built-in beds, without mattresses, insufficient in number. Detainees slept on the floor, which was almost fully covered by linen, substituting the mattresses. For this reason, lack of blankets was declared. At the time of inspection, in the space designated for women (a container),