Recommendations of the National Preventive Mechanism Recommendations for specific establishments ✓✓ Undertaking actions aimed at eliminating provocative and degrading treatment of detainees by the staff; ✓✓ Eliminating irregularities in the treatment of prisoners, in particular prisoners against whom direct coercive measures are applied; ✓✓ Including in the internal Regulations a provision granting to the detainees the right to call their attorney or legal representative; ✓✓ Eliminating collective responsibility of detainees; ✓✓ Assessing whether there are no abuses consisting in unfounded requests by prison officers to impose disciplinary punishment on detainees; ✓✓ Allowing persons detained on remand and those qualified as dangerous to participate directly in a Mass; ✓✓ Providing preventive health care services to persons deprived of their liberty; ✓✓ Extending the offer of cultural and educational activities; ✓✓ Ensuring that complaints procedure exists and is observed; ✓✓ Ensuring appropriate staffing, depending on the needs of a given facility; ✓✓ Ensuring sufficient and permanent access to information about the patients’ rights, e.g. by placing the “Charter of Patients’ Rights” (adjusted to persons placed in penitentiary establishments) in a visible place in the rooms for patients; ✓✓ Ensuring that libraries have the latest versions of the Executive Penal Code and copies of “Compendium for Foreigners”, ✓✓ Posting the addresses of institutions protecting the rights of prisoners in a visible place, accessible to all; ✓✓ To stop reprimanding detainees incessantly and stop threatening them with disciplinary action; ✓✓ Limiting the time of prisoners’ stay in transition cells to the necessary period not exceeding 14 days; ✓✓ Increasing the frequency of baths; ✓✓ Providing rooms for visits without a supervising person; ✓✓ Including in the staff training programme a course on international human rights instruments and standards. 3.2. R  ooms within Police organisational units for detained persons or persons brought to sober up Systemic recommendations ✓✓ Subjecting all persons detained or brought to sober up to medical examination before placing them in PDRs; ✓✓ Limiting the presence of Police officers when medical services are provided to detainees to situations when there is a justified concern about the safety of medical personnel, 133