Report of the HRD on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2011 above-mentioned actions in separate, non-communicating rooms, which are not under surveillance and are equipped with a screen or a curtain. • Designate and train staff members responsible for operating the CCTV. f) Living conditions The visiting team evaluated living conditions in the rooms as good. The technical condition of rooms for detainees and of sanitary facilities was evaluated as proper, except for the rooms and the equipment which needed to be renovated (sanitary facilities excluded) at the station in Gorzów Wielkopolski. On the day of the visit the temperature in the rooms was adequate to the season of the year. Also, the stations were clean. Rooms in all of the stations were equipped with a call-over installation which enables to call a staff member in case of emergency. The visiting team also noticed that only stations in Elbląg and in Grudziądz were fully adjusted to the needs of the disabled. In all other aspects the situation was evaluated as bad. The director of the station in Tarnów did not react to the NPM’s remark concerning the lack sleeping rooms adjusted to the needs of the disabled, and the director of the station in Gorzów Wielkopolski announced that the renovation works recommended by the Mechanism would be carried out. At the station in Tarnów, the visiting team established that, unlike in other similar establishments, this particular one did not provide sanitary and hygienic services (such as a bath) when admitting patients. According to the information acquired from a member of the staff, a patient who looks scruffy, before being released, is informed about a possibility to take a bath, but such proposals are usually rejected. In the opinion of the NPM, in justified cases the physician employed at a station should decide to carry out hygienic and sanitary procedures when admitting a patient, as stipulated in § 4.1(3) of the Ordinance. The response which the NPM received stated that hygienic and sanitary services were provided to patients, who, however, were not willing to make use of them, even if recommended to do so by the physician. The National Preventive Mechanism recommended to: • Provide necessary hygienic and sanitary services to intoxicated persons; • Adapt rooms and equipment at the stations to the needs of the disabled; • Renovate rooms and equip them properly. g) Staff Representatives of the NPM did not report any problems with finding employees. The Mechanism found out that only in the station in Tarnów neither psychologist nor therapist was employed. Consequently, the NPM decided that the objectives set out in §18(5) of the Ordinance are implemented in a limited scope, and recommended to hire a psychologist or a therapist specialising in treatment of addictions whose activities would 122