CAT/C/ROU/CO/2 The State party should take effective measures to guarantee that all detained persons are afforded, in practice, all the fundamental legal safeguards from the outset of their deprivation of liberty, in accordance with international standards, including: (a) The right of detainees to be informed about the charges against them and about their rights, both orally and in writing, in a language that they understand; (b) The right of detainees to have prompt access to a lawyer from the very outset of deprivation of liberty and, if necessary, to legal aid, including during the initial interrogation; (c) The right of detainees to have immediate access to an independent medical examination, free of charge; (d) The right of detainees to have a family member or another appropriate person of their own choice notified of their detention. The State party should establish a proper system of registration, with a single unified national register of detention that includes factual details about the detention, including the justification for the detention, and transfers, and should ensure that it contains the exact date, time and place of detention from the outset of deprivation of liberty. Prolonged detention in police detention and arrest centres 8. While noting the reduction in the number of pretrial detainees in 2014 owing to the use of alternative measures, the Committee is concerned about the continued use of pretrial and administrative detention during criminal prosecution in police detention and arrest centres, which can be extended to up to 180 days. It is particularly concerned at the continued and prolonged detention of sentenced prisoners in police detention centres. It is also concerned at overcrowding and at the poor material conditions in police detention facilities (arts. 2 and 11). The State party should put an end to the practice of prolonged pretrial and administrative detention in police detention and arrest centres and should ensure that their use is clearly regulated and is subject to judicial supervision at all times, which guarantees fundamental legal and procedural safeguards. The State party should consider alternatives to incarceration, taking into account the provisions of the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Non-custodial Measures (the Tokyo Rules). All sentenced detainees held in police detention facilities should be promptly transferred to prisons under the National Administration of Penitentiaries. The State party should continue to renovate police detention centres with a view to bringing the conditions of detention into line with international standards. Excessive use of force by law enforcement officials and statements made as a result of torture and ill-treatment 9. The Committee is concerned at reports alleging cases of violence by law enforcement officials, including against minors, at the time of arrest, detention and interrogation, that has amounted to ill-treatment and torture, and is aimed among other things at eliciting confessions, some of which has allegedly resulted in deaths. It is particularly concerned about the treatment at the Ilfov Police Inspectorate of two persons reported to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, corroborated by medical reports, which was of such gravity as to amount to torture. The Committee is also concerned at the low number of prosecutions and convictions in such cases. The Committee is further concerned at reports 3