NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK CONCERNING DEFENDANTS AND PERSONS DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY WITH INTELLECTUAL AND/OR PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES IN LAW AND PRACTICE 61 suspect may be transferred to another special institution until the court decides on the imposition of coercive medical measures. The time spent in another special institution is extended by a judge’s order and is included in the time of detention. A relevant problem referred to by research participants in interviews was the potentially long waiting time before the psychiatric forensic examination may be obtained: „There are long queues and people just waiting for their examination, so this is a problem <…> there is especially a lack of adolescent psychiatrists, forensic experts, forensic psychologists. In essence, work positions are missing that is why queues exist, otherwise there would be more capacity; however, the situation is the way it is due to the lack of professionals.”73 During the proceedings concerning an act committed by a person with diminished criminal legal capacity or not criminally responsible, as well as a person whose mental health condition occurred after the commission of the offence and as a result, they are unable to comprehend the essence of their own actions or to control them, it must be proven that: a) the time, place, manner and other circumstances of the commission of an act are forbidden by criminal law; b) whether the act prohibited by criminal 73 Quote from one of the semi-structured interviews.

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