hours. Once this term expires, although they continue to be accommodated in the detention places on the territory of the BPD - town of Elhovo - these individuals are not provided with food, since this is not prescribed under the Instruction. The NPM team found cases where the foreigners stay approximately a week. It was found during the interviews that some of them have not had any food for more than five days, due to the lack of funds. The use of bathroom and toilet is also extremely difficult. There is no bathroom and the toilet is approximately 20 metres away from the building and is in terrible hygiene and general condition. Mothers with children are accommodated in another building of BPD - town of Elhovo equipped in accordance with the Instruction, having capacity to accommodate 15 people. The conditions there are good, but there is an acute problem with congestion. Individuals detained are subject to primary medical examination. Some of the individuals accommodated need secondary exams for symptomatic complaints and specific medical care, which cannot be provided within the Border Police Department. Officers from other Regional Directorates of Border Police were commissioned to BPD - Elhovo - at the time of the inspection. The NPM team found that despite the increase in the human resources, the work of the police officers is not any easier. In Elhovo the NPM team also visited the so-called Distribution Centre (DC) at "Migration" Directorate, which is under construction within the school for children with special needs. The decision for the construction of such a centre was made at the beginning of September. The Centre is a territorial division of the MI. The additional information received indicated that the legal grounds for the creation and the operation of the DC Elhovo - is Order 1з-1887 of 25 September 2013 of the Minister of Interior. Foreigners can stay in the Centre up to five days, and depending on whether they have filed an application for protection, they are directed to the SAR centres, and the rest - to the homes of the "Migration" Directorate - MI. Accommodation. At the time of the inspection the SAR centres were extremely overpopulated. At RAC Banya Village, the number of individuals applying for protection was 147, given the centre's capacity of 70. At the TC - Pastrogor Village, there were 459 individuals accommodated, given the capacity of 300. At RAC - Sofia, Ovcha Kupel Residential Estate, there were 1000 individuals accommodated, given the capacity of 860, and the centres opened in Voenna Rampa and Vrazhdebna Residential Estates accommodated 709 and 420 people, respectively. The assessment of the NPM is that people. looking for protection, accommodated in this building are subject to inhuman and degrading treatment. The living conditions found at the time of the inspection are shocking - the buildings are old, with poor and poorly functioning sewerage and electric systems. The building in Vrazhdebna Residential Estate is not heated as the boiler is not working, and the hot water produced by two small boilers is limited. It is obvious that these buildings are fixed hastily, without the preparation necessary and they do not meet the requirements of any standard and regulation. The latter are not staffed. There is not even a representative of the SAR staying there full time in order to blow the whistle and to coordinate the actions in case of various problems and situations. There is not medical 6