SUMMARIES OF SELECTED STATEMENTS The Ombudsman agreed that the documentation had been inadequate and that the Department of Prisons and Probation should not have informed the prison on the basis of the information then available that it had taken note of the report. The Ombudsman was unable to carry out an in-depth investigation of the case but had no grounds for assuming that the inmate had been kept in the security cell for longer than necessary. 2017-33. Significant improvements in Greenland police detention facilities A visiting team with representatives from the Ombudsman’s office and a human rights expert from the Danish Institute for Human Rights made a monitoring visit to the police detention facility at Kulusuk in Greenland in August 2013. The facility is not permanently staffed by police. The visit revealed, among other things, that persons placed in the facility had no possibility of summoning help from the municipal bailiff (‘kommunefoged’), that they were not offered food or drink and that they could not use the toilet unless the municipal bailiff was present. In addition, all persons placed in the facility were stripped to their briefs and searched regardless of whether there was a specific reason for this. Further, the municipal bailiff had the only key to the facility. Following the visit, the Ombudsman raised some questions with the Ministry of Justice, the National Police and the Chief Constable of Greenland. As a result, the authorities improved the conditions in a number of respects, and new rules on the duties, training and equipment of municipal bailiffs were issued. One of the improvements was that municipal bailiffs were now required to keep persons placed in detention facilities under continuous supervision. A municipal bailiff was only permitted to leave a person placed in a detention facility in the event of another incident of extreme urgency, such as a shooting incident, arising elsewhere where attending to the incident clearly outweighed the risk and disadvantages of leaving the person alone in the facility. However, the Ombudsman was still concerned about the safety of persons placed in the five detention facilities in Greenland which were not permanently staffed by police – as persons placed in the facilities would in most cases be unsupervised and unable to summon help in situations where the municipal bailiff temporarily left the facility. 89