upon. In this regard, the working group formulated core statements and distinguished between minimum standards to be implemented in all cases and target standards, which are ideally to be achieved. One core statement is that detainees should have access to current information about the outside world. This must be ensured by the use of the detainee’s own approved radio and TV equipment in the inmate cell and by providing radio and TV equipment in the common areas. Moreover, the cells must each be equipped with an electrical outlet with multiple sockets, which is switchable from the outside. Detainees must also have the opportunity to purchase print media. The facilities should provide the prisoners with free newspapers. The establishment of controlled Internet access should be a target standard. Information about the outside world Detainees should have sufficient opportunity to move about the interior and exterior areas of the police detention centre. The space in both areas should be suitably equipped. Outside areas should be appropriately designed, shaded and provided with seating. As always, detainees should be given the opportunity to move about outdoors for at least one hour per day. If the weather does not permit this, physical movement should be ensured in some other way. In the future, the facilities should have table football sets, basketball hoops and balls, Thera bands, table tennis tables, badminton equipment and sports mats. The provision of fitness equipment is only intended to be a target standard. Physical movement Social contacts between detainees should be actively supported. Therefore, prisoners should at least be able to use a social area or communal room. Board games should be available. Social contacts Externally supported leisure activities (e.g. physical education classes, artistic and cultural leisure activities) could result in improved conditions of detention. The working group will formulate additional standards with respect to the occupation and leisure opportunities in police detention centres next year. In addition, the working group will address the following topics when it resumes its meetings: proposals by the NPM to amend the Code of Conduct for Detention, the detainees’ contacts with the outside (contacts with family, telephone use, use of their own cell phones, access to the Internet and Skype, telephone rules for indigent prisoners); language barriers (interpreting, video interpreting, medical area, other areas); ensuring privacy in the restrooms; taking the special needs of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) persons and persons with disabilities into account. The standards thus far developed by the working group should be realised as quickly as possible in the form of decrees by the Federal Ministry of the Interior or amendments to the Code of Conduct for Detention and by implementing physical measures (e.g. structural adjustments). Implementation of the standards 124