exam is provided only at the explicit request of the detainee or in case of occurrence of obvious health condition. Thus in most cases there is actually no medical exam. It was found during the inspection of the medical exams register that in some places the time or date of the medical exam carried out are not recorded therein. In violation of the provision of art. 3 of the Instruction the results and the potential medical prescriptions are recorded by the police officer but are not signed off by the doctor (RDP Devin_. The medical certificates issued at some RDPs (for example, RDP Gotse Delchev_ are kept in a file and are thus used as "Register of medical exams“. The NPM believes that this practice creates a prerequisite for the addition of documents prepared later than the time of the actual event. The inspection of the documents at some of the inspected locations (RDP Razlog) found that there are empty lines left in the registers. This allows recording of medical exams at a later stage and therefore – provides an opportunity for abuse. The purpose of the medical exams register is to record them chronologically without an opportunity for additional "insertion" of fictitious exams. In view of the guaranteed right to medical exam the NPM gave a number of recommendations in the current reports drawn up, amongst which are: - to establish regulated relations between the authorities of the Ministry of Interior and the officers of the Ministry of Health; - to keep medical exam registers (Appendix No 4) which are to be used by the police officers to record the results and the potential medical prescriptions and are to be signed off by the doctor in accordance with art. 20, para 3 of the Instruction. - to strictly keep a register in accordance with art. 87, para 1 , item 6 (Appendix No 4), which register has to be stringed together and numbered in order to avoid the entry of untrue information. Awareness of the detained persons as to their rights Randomly chosen and checked documents did not reveal any lack of signatures by the detained persons or by witnesses in case of refusal to sign, on the detention orders, on the declaration for information about the rights, the search protocols, the receipts for the returned personal belongings and other documents. In all locations inspected the NPM team found existence of dedicated records keeping register used to record the detention orders in accordance with Appendix No 9 to art. 11, para 4 of the Instruction. Rules on the Internal Order at the Detention Facilities exist and are approved at all police departments. They contain the requisites required – rights and obligations of the detained persons, restriction regime and the place of accommodation, set out in art. 41-46 of the Instruction. The NPM found that there is no legislative requirement regarding the procedure to inform the detained persons with the Rules within the different structures of the MI. The practice established is to place these Rules in a place accessible for and visible to the detainees. The information boards in many RDPs are used to place excerpts of the rights of the detained persons as provided for in art. 63 of the Law on the Ministry of Interior, as well as current lists with the lawyers on duty (ex-officio appointed attorneys) from the 38