As for the employment of medical staff in the remaining 7 isolators, the response indicates that the Ministry has twice announced a competition for vacancies of doctors in the isolators of Baghdati, Dusheti, Kobuleti, Akhalkalaki, Mestia, Lanchkhuti and Ambrolauri, but the qualified medical staff could not be found. With one of the recommendations the Public Defender also requested to carry out training for doctors employed in temporary placement isolators on the instructions for photographing the injuries on the bodies of persons placed in the isolator and the rules for storing the photographs taken. The recommendation was partly implemented. According to the statement issued by the Ministry, a training course on photographing injuries on the bodies of detainees and storing the photographs has been started for medical staff working in temporary detention facilities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Two groups of doctors were trained on the mentioned issues in the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The published statement also says that the Ministry will train the rest of the medical staff in the near future.277 With one of the recommendations the Public Defender requested to eliminate the deficiencies in terms of living conditions in temporary detention facilities in 2020. The Public Defender welcomes the opening of a new temporary detention isolator and a facility for administrative detainees in 2020. The construction of new isolators in Bakuriani and Gurjaani is also positive development. Repairs to the isolators in 2020 are welcome, although a number of infrastructural problems remain that need to be addressed.278 Accordingly, the above recommendation was partly implemented. 3.3. Ill-treatment During monitoring visits to temporary detention facilities and penitentiary institutions, the Special Preventive Group received a number of reports of disproportionate, apparently excessive use of force by police during detention and alleged ill-treatment after detention.279 For instance:  According to the detainee, the officers of the Khoni District Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs put the person after the detention in a police car and took him to the vicinity of the motor station. While in the car, the detainee told police that the handcuffs were too tight and asked for help, prompting police officers to verbally abuse him. According to the detainee, he was irritated and responded to the police with a verbal abuse. The detainee said that after the verbal abused in the car, he was beaten by three police officers until he lost consciousness. According to the documentation compiled by the doctor of the temporary placement isolator, the detainee had redness on both wrists when he was placed in the isolator, which he received as a result of handcuffing after the arrest. There were bruises on his forehead, nose and left cheek, which he received as a result of being punched in the car by police officers after his arrest. According to The statement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is available at the following address: https://www.facebook.com/182742568494417/posts/3372279489540693/?d=n [Last visited: 26.03.21]. 278 For more information, see Chapter: Conditions in Temporary Detention Isolators, Physical Environment. 279 As a result of the inspection, a special preventive group received 15 reports from 58 respondents about allegations of torture and other ill-treatment by the police. 277 90