NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK CONCERNING DEFENDANTS AND PERSONS DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY WITH INTELLECTUAL AND/OR PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES IN LAW AND PRACTICE 5. General Observation Health Care Unit III 14 630,4 6. General Observation Health Care Unit IV 32 748,5 7. Women and Children's Special Observation Care Unit. 17 669 Total in specialised psychiatry: 149 800,9 Admissions and General Psychiatry Unit 421 29,5 570 231,2 8. Total inpatient: 77 Ministry of Health data, received 23 June 2022 Criminal proceedings become a process of applying compulsory medical treatment measures, if during the pre-trial investigation or during the hearing of the case in court, it is established that a person is not criminally responsible or is partly criminally responsible, or after the commission of the criminal act develop a mental health condition rendering them incapable of understanding the nature of their actions or controlling them. It is important to note that sending a person for a forensic psychiatric examination is only allowed if there is sufficient evidence to show that the person in question has committed the very act prohibited by the criminal law under investigation.97 Article 396(1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Republic of Lithuania, 2002, No. IX-785. Available at: https://bit.ly/3tMjRdy. 97

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