2016 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE 5. Concerning data registration. The data on the placement of persons in temporary/long-term detention facilities are not recorded or are recorded inappropriately; the narrow monitors show not all the options of the Electronic Register, which prevents the full use of this software. Klaipėda County Police Headquarters; the working, temporary detention and interrogation facilities of the operational group at the Palanga City Police Station have been equipped with a ventilation system, and in the working facilities of the operational group of the Plungė District Police Station this system has been renovated; doors have been installed in the sanitary facilities of the Palanga City Police Station to enable the persons’ private use of the toilet; the Police Stations of Plungė and Skuodas districts have been outfitted with shower rooms, and new vandal-resistant lights have been installed and contracts on the lease of sports facilities have been concluded at the Plungė District Police Station; the Skuodas District Police Station is using its own sports hall; the police stations have been equipped with additional dispensers for disinfection liquids; the chief of the Klaipėda County Police Headquarters has issued an order on the procedure for the placement of detainees in the temporary detention facilities and their transfer to the custody facilities, which has been made available to the officers; persons detained at the police stations of Palanga, Plungė and Skuodas districts are held for not more than five hours, thereby solving the issues of ensuring the necessary supplies and walks, privacy, organisation of meals and provision of information; information folders for detained have been prepared following the approval of the new internal rules of procedure for the police custody facilities, and their translations into fo­ reign languages will be provided as well. On completing the inspections at four police stations, 27 recommendations were provided to the responsible authorities, including the Police Commissioner General of the Republic of Lithuania, the chief of the Klaipėda County Police Headquarters and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania (of which three recommendations were concerned with the improvement of the act6ivities of the police custody facilities and the legal framework of the public health care). Most of the recommendations (23) were implemented in full or in part. In its reply regarding the implementation of the provided recommendations, the Police Depart­ ment indicated that the hardware and software present at the institutions under the Department was constantly upgraded where possible, with a view to ensuring the use of the Electronic Register to the full extent, and that the legal framework was being improved by including in the internal rules of procedure of the police custody facilities a provision on the supply of clothing and footwear in case detainees had no garments of their own or were not dressed for the season. The Klaipėda County Police Headquarters has informed that surveillance cameras have been installed not only in custody cells but also in interrogation rooms; the food supplied to detainees in custody facilities is checked two to three times a month and it is distributed by employees of the catering services provider; in case disabled persons have to be detained, they are brought to the facilities adapted for this purpose at the Four recommendations of the Seimas Ombudsmen have not been implemented: due to the existing structure of the building, there is no possibility for enlarging the temporary detention facilities at the Plungė District Police Station; and the recommendation to provide appropriate conditions for washing and drying personal outer 19

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