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sanction accordingly both the perpetrators and ones justly responsible, as well as
to ensure injured party’s appropriate satisfaction.
2. It is essential that the Internal Control Sector of the Ministry of Interior in its future
work take into account all relevant facts more carefully and objectively determine liability of police officers in cases of torture or any other form of ill-treatment.
Ministry of Interior must increase the level efficacy of existing internal control mechanisms.
3. The Ministry of Interior, without any further delay, must ensure police custody facilities comply with current regulations and standards, since keeping people in
decripit premises for several hours is harassment.
4. Police in published statements, that is, police officers and officials in statements
intended for public, shall not violate the presumption of innocence of the citizens i.e. to publicly qualify that particular individuals committed certain criminal
offenses if it has not yet been established by the Court’s final judgment.
5. By expedient enforcement of existing regulations it is necessary to improve the
execution of per-trail/trail detention, anticipating facile pronouncement, often
inappropriately long lasting, so therefore in the future, taking into account the
poor living conditions, detention is no longer a kind of punishment prior to conviction.
6. It is necessary to solve the problem of overcrowded District Prison in Belgrade,
the largest remand department in Serbia, with an inadequate architecture and
ruined, and whose significant part is utilized for inappropriate residing of current
and former workers’ families of the Prison.
7. It is necessary to adopt the Law of Probation, in order to protect society from
crime, social reintegration of perpetrators of crimes and their reintegration into
community, as well as to provide assistance to injured parties, plaintiffs and their families;
8. Accommodation capacities of prisons require to be renovated in order to comply with the applicable requirements of the existing regulations and standards;
9. It is necessary to improve the existing by-laws related to the treatment of prisoners, primarily to: establish intensive and active occupational therapy with prisoners; functional and stimulative classification and allocation of specific rights of
prisoners; implementation of effective preparation for their release within special
discharge units; as well as the effective gradual acceptance that will enable reintegration of offenders after their release.
10. Health Care Service i.e. doctor of the institution, should be detached from the
system for execution of criminal sanctions. Medical staff providing health care
service in prisons should be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health.
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