departments. Such facilities exist at DPD of MI Kyustendil, RDP Duplitsa, RDP Radnevo, RDP Smolyan, and the living conditions there may be described as satisfactory. Premises where people under police protection are accommodated are also part of the physical assets within the MI. These premises often have to be used to accommodate minors and under aged individuals. Renovation and maintenance of the available physical assets has been organised in some of the police departments. The living conditions there are good (for example, RDP Asenovgrad, RDP Varna, some RDPs in Plovdiv). The requirements to the equipment in accordance with the Instruction have been complied with in these premises – they are secured and the equipment meets the requirements of art. 61-71 of the Instruction. At other detention facilities which represent approximately 50% of the facilities inspected by the NPM, the living conditions are in a terrible condition ( DPD of MI Kyustendil, RDP Rakovski). The required 4 sq. m. per person have not been provided in the premises, the spaces for rest usually represent benches; there is no connection between the detention premises and the servicing premises; no space for storage of personal belongings are secured; the floors are not made of material allowing easy cleaning and disinfection; there is no access to natural light and ventilation; no surveillance tools have been installed. No signalling systems have been put in place in most detention facilities, which the detained persons can use for urgent connection with the security personnel. The NPM inspections found that the conditions in a significant number of 24-hour detention facilities can be determined as inhuman and degrading for the detained individuals. The physical assets available lead to impossibility to respect their rights. The NPM defines the working conditions for the officers there as extremely tough and harmful to their health. The administrative work is carried out in premises used for several functions simultaneously – corridors and staircases split using chip board pieces, forming small premises. The police officers are using obsolete and depreciated equipment. In RDP Kotel officers have been infected with positive Australia anti-gene (hepatitis B) due to the non-use of protection – gloves – during visual inspection at a crime scene. The NPM believes that there is urgent need to provide new spaces for the accommodation of detained people in certain regional police departments. This can be achieved through: - taking measures for the reconstruction of buildings, the design and separation of detention premises and servicing premises in accordance with the Instruction. The NPM reports identify the specific recommendations for the improvement of the living conditions in each of the inspected facilities; - financing for the designs drawn up and approved for the separation of the premises for the detained persons within the structural units of the MI. Food Food for the detained persons is provided in accordance with Methodology on the Order for the Food Assignment and Exclusion for People Detained and Escorted by Officers from the MI on Grounds provided for in the CPC, in accordance with the explicit requirements of the Law on the Ministry of Interior, the Rules on the Application of the LMI, art. 43 of the Instruction and Order No 1221/2007 of the Minister of Interior regarding the provision of food and the cost of food products in accordance with Table No 1. 35