2016 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE
are not supplied with mattresses and blankets
when staying in temporary detention facilities
during night-time. The privacy of detainees is not
ensured in the use of the sanitary facilities (the
surveillance cameras are installed so as to show
a part of the space the sanitary facilities which
also lack doors); persons under the influence of
alcohol are held in temporary detention facilities
longer than the 5-hour time limit; persons held
in long-term detention facilities for 24 hours or
more have no opportunity to go for a walk outside; not all police stations had clothing which,
if necessary, could be provided to disinfected
persons in custody facilities; individuals held in
custody facilities have no appropriate conditions
for washing their personal outer garments and
bedding and drying them afterwards.
3. Concerning the organisation of meals and
health care. Minors get three meals a day, without
observing the time intervals defined in laws; the
food from catering services providers served to
detainees is not checked; officers who distribute
meals have not completed compulsory training
in hygiene skills, and have failed to comply with
the hygiene requirements while distributing
food; preconditions are created for violating the
privacy of persons during their examination by
health care professionals in cells (also with other
detainees present in a cell) or hallways by the
cells; the dates of medicines in the first aid kit at
the duty officers’ unit were expired.
4. Concerning the right of access to information
for persons, including foreign nationals. The
custody and long-term detention facilities have
no internal rules of procedure displayed; persons
are not introduced with their rights and duties at
long-term detention facilities against signature;
and no internal rules of procedure for custody and
long-term detention facilities have been prepared
in any foreign language.
and employees sign a confidentiality agreement
on non-disclosure of child information and the
content of individual conversations); also group
and individual conversations are initiated for the
purpose of discovering various shortcomings.
POLICE CUSTODY FACILITIES
During the reporting period, the assessment
of the human rights situation at custody and
temporary detention facilities of police stations
included inspections of the custody and temporary detention facility of the Klaipėda County
Police Headquarters and 3 (three) police stations
in Klaipėda County, in particular Plungė District
Police Station, Skuodas District Police Station and
the log-term and temporary detention facilities of
Palanga City Police Station (Report No. 2016/1-21
of 8 June 2016).
The following main problems and most common
violations of human rights have been identified:
1. Concerning the officers’ working conditions.
The officers’ working facilities (their part) are nonrenovated, i.e. the floor and wall cover is worn out,
the ventilation system is installed inadequately,
no conditions for washing oneself exist, and there
is a lack of a sports hall.
2. Concerning the detention conditions and
supply of persons. The detention facilities are not
adapted to persons with movement disabilities
and fail to meet the statutory requirements for
the floor area, ventilation and lighting. The longterm detention facilities have double deck beds,
which creates conditions which can give rise to a
threat that the living conditions of persons detained in such premises may be equivalent to degrading treatment due to the lack of personal space.
The supplies provided for in laws, in particular
individual closets and coats hooks, as well as the
cleanliness are not ensured. The detained persons
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