76 9. Persons deprived of their liberty at the places of detention visited by the NPM police officers also stayed in the doctor ’s room within hearing distance. I asked the Commissioner of Police for Budapest to take action to ensure that only medical personnel are present during medical examinations. If the presence of police officers is indispensable during the examination, they should be waiting outside hearing distance. There were cases when detainees could not notify their relatives after their admission into the Central Holding Facility. I asked the head of MPHB to make it possible in such cases for detainees to notify their relatives. Some detainees who were taken to the Central Holding Facility late at night claimed that since the guards did not ask them whether they wanted anything to eat, they went hungry till morning. I asked the Commissioner of Police for Budapest to ensure that the Central Holding Facility provide food for detainees taken there past dinner time if necessary. The Central Holding Facility did not have any concise and easily understandable information materials that would have facilitated the comprehension of the lengthy and unintelligible admission brochure for the detainees. I asked the Commissioner of Police for Budapest to take action to ensure that such a brief and reader-friendly information brochure is made available. In several cells of the Central Holding Facility, the window handles did not work, neither ventilation, nor lighting was appropriate, sanitary units were dilapidated, and the hot water supply was not continuous. There was no toilet inside the cells. Detainees could use the toilet only by asking the guards to accompany them to the lavatories. The detainees complained that the guards often made them wait. The courtyard was in an extremely decrepit state. I asked the head of the MPHB to take action with a view to renovating the cells and the courtyard, ensuring continuous hot water supply, as well as to ensure that the guards react immediately to the requests of those detainees who wish to use the lavatories. Courtyard of the Central Holding Facility of the MPHB