Places visited by the National Preventive Mechanism in 2011 regulating these issues. Being a kind of pioneer initiative, the Lublin practice is presented by the NPM as a model, and its adoption by other units is recommended. While examining the access of persons held in PDRs to medical care, the representatives of the NPM verify the manner in which medical services are provided, in terms of presence of non–medical personnel (Police officers). The Mechanism is of the opinion that the presence of such persons should be limited to the necessary minimum justified by circumstances, namely to situations of justified concern about safety of medical personnel, or to places where medical services are provided not equipped with appropriate technical safeguards thus raising concerns that a detainee might escape. This point of view corresponds with the position of CPT on the matter and included in 12th CPT General Report in which the Committee stresses that all medical examinations must be conducted out of the hearing and out of the sight non-medical personnel95. The employees of the Mechanism noted with satisfaction that appropriate approach to the presence of a Police officer during the provision of medical services is adopted in two PDRs, namely Bydgoszcz and Chojnice. As a rule, a Police officer is not present during medical examination of a detainee. The NPM has found that a significant majority of visited establishments make efforts to ensure diligent records in the books of medical visits, paying attention to appropriate documentation of physicians’ visits in a PDR, giving the date and time of examination, with doctor’s stamp and signature. In 4 PDRs, however, some gaps in the entries in books of medical visits were revealed during visitations (Gorzów Wielkopolski, Sanok, Ustrzyki Dolne, Warszawa VI). Dates and time of medical examinations, as well as stamps of responsible persons, were lacking. The Mechanism is of the opinion that from the perspective of the right of detainees to medical care during their stay in PDRs, diligent records from examinations, made by persons conducting them, are a must in evaluating the quality of medical care. Such elements as date, time and stamp of person conducting the examination are of key importance in the case of any medical complications that may occur to the detainee after such an examination. From the perspective of the Mechanism as the visiting body, such information makes it easier to follow and assess the quality of medical services provided to detainees during their stay in a PDR. The response of the management of individual entities towards the irregularities revealed by the Mechanism concerning realisation of the right of detainees to medical care has been evaluated positively. The National Preventive Mechanism was assured that officers on duty in PDRs would pay more attention to the accuracy of entries in the books of medical visits made by medical personnel examining detainees. Following the visit, the National Preventive Mechanism recommended: • Subjecting all persons detained or brought to sober up to medical examination before placing them in PDRs;  See: para. 42 of [CPT/Inf (2002)15]. 95 57