2016 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE including the Police Department, the Ministry of Social Security and Labour and the Association of Local Authorities, had agreed on the urgency of the problem, but none of them had assumed the responsibility to organise additional services and their financing with the budget allocations for the institutions. In the Ministry’s opinion, as Lithuania had some successful state-funded providers of the general and short-term social care and temporary accommodation services, for example, Sala, a branch of the Vilnius Emergency Lodging House, the long-term experience of which suggested that the Association of Local Authorities could take an initiative to promote the proper organisation and funding of temporary accommodation services for unsober individuals. garments and bedding at the custody facilities of the Klaipėda County Police Headquarters has not been implemented either. The Police Department disagreed with the recommendation to supply persons placed in temporary detention facilities during night-time with soft items such as mattresses and blankets, and has failed to implement the recommendation to take measures to prevent the violations of human rights also at other police institutions identified during the inspections. The Ministry of Health disagreed with the proposal to improve the health care regulations, expressing the opinion that the existing legal framework was sufficient (in particular the List of public health measures implemented by the state-funded closed health care institutions of the Ministries of the Interior and Defence, Lithuanian Medical Standard MN 129:2004 “Medical unit (office) of the custody facilities at a territorial police institution” and the Regulations on the operation of custody facilities at police stations). IMPRISONMENT INSTITUTIONS In 2016, the Seimas Ombudsmen assessed the human rights situation at Alytus Correction House (Report No. 2016/1-55 of 21 July 2016). The inspection was carried out in four thematic areas: (1) detention conditions; (2) security; (3) the right of access of information and of submitting appeals; and (4) health care. The following problems and most common violations of human rights have been identified: 1. Concerning the detention conditions. Most of the premises are not adapted to the movement of persons with disabilities; there are no shelves or rails installed at a lower height, or sufficient space for the free movement of wheelchairs; wheelchairs and other means compensating physical disabilities are in short supply; the number of seats in the courtyard is inadequate, and in the library the availability of audiobooks and other alternative electronic measures for access to information and possibilities of distance learning are insufficient; proper cleanliness and ventilation are The recommendations of the Seimas Ombudsmen that have not been implemented or rejected by the responsible authorities are analysed further and ways for solving the problems are sought in order to improve the human rights situation at the police stations. The Seimas Ombudsman has also requested the Ministry of Health to provide information on the results of work to solve the question of an inter-service working group for the delivery of persons under the influence of alcohol to an appropriate (police, personal health care, etc.) institution. The Ministry of Health informed that on 17 September 2014 a meeting of the Ministry of Health had evaluated the existing situation in organising the provision of personal health care, social and other services to unsober persons. The representatives of all the attending institutions, 20