Annexes Drammen police custody • The police should establish procedures to record the results of supervisory actions and observations involving high-risk detainees, focusing on their respiratory rate and body position. • Consideration should be given to expanding the local custody instruction guide to include practical guidelines for carrying out body searches, including the removal of clothing in two stages. • The police, in cooperation with the correctional services, should further strengthen efforts to comply with the two-day deadline for transfer to prison. The police should ensure in particular that the deadline is observed for minors in all cases. • The police should find a suitable room where minors can wait in the company of a child welfare officer before being driven home or returned to the relevant institution. • The police should strengthen efforts to mitigate the adverse effects of isolation, in particular by considering the possibility of visits from outside for persons held in custody for more than two days. • The police should ensure that detainees are permitted to speak directly with health personnel at the accident and emergency care unit, and that phone calls can take place without police and custody officers overhearing. • The police should not be able to hear conversations in the patient room at the accident and emergency care unit. Nor should the police be able to see into the patient room, unless requested by health personnel in special instances. • The police should establish a procedure asking all detainees to sign an affirmation that they have been informed of their rights in a language they understand. • The police should ensure that all detainees are informed of their right to have relatives or third parties informed of their admission into custody; the police should also ensure that detainees are asked whether such notification is desired. • The police should ensure that notification or attempted notification of defence counsel is always carried out without undue delay, regardless of time of day. • The police should ensure that informational materials on the rights of persons arrested or detained are updated to clarify this right of notification. • The police should remove the metal rods attached to the wall of the intake room. • The police are advised to consider upgrading one or more custody cells to give them a more humane design. • A better lighting-control system should be created for all the cells, and it should include an option to dim the lights at night without compromising the opportunity to observe persons in detention; all cells should also have clocks installed. • Detainees should be assured of sufficient access to fresh air. At a minimum, persons detained should be able to breathe fresh air and see daylight on a daily basis, and be given a genuine opportunity for movement and the feeling of being outdoors. • The police should ensure that all detainees are offered written and verbal information, as soon as possible and in a language they understand, about the rights of persons detained or arrested. Norway’s National Preventive Mechanism – Annual Report 2014 49