8. V  iolations of the rights of persons deprived of their liberty, identified during inspection visits to places of detention (selected examples) The NMPT’s preventive visits revealed particularly disturbing situations in which the elementary rights of persons deprived of liberty were not respected. Information about these situations was obtained by NMPT representatives on the basis of interviews held with people staying in detention centres as well as from analyses of monitoring and documentation kept in these places. The selected examples described below cast light, in the NMPT’s opinion, on the system protecting the rights of persons deprived of liberty in Poland. These cases reveal that the standards in effect for observing these persons’ rights do not adequately safeguard their interests. The descriptions below of irregularities committed by public functionaries in dealing with persons deprived of liberty also have educational value: by making these cases public, the NMPT believes they will constitute valuable lessons for all functionaries responsible for persons deprived of liberty in regard to the procedures that should be followed with such persons, for the purpose of avoiding the violations described. 8.1. Closed detention centres for migrants During inspections of CDCs in 2016, the NMPT representatives discovered individual cases of persons241 whose detention in the centres – in the NMPT’s opinion – attest to the ineffective functioning of the system for identifying victims of torture and violence, which should protect these persons from placement in closed centres242. The first three cases were identified in the CDC in Kętrzyn; the last one was found in the CDC in Biała Podlaska. 242 More information on the issue is available from CHR’s general intervention to the Chief Commander of the Border Guard of 30.06.2017, ref. no. KMP.572.4.2016. 241 81