Part II against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, adopted on 10 December 1984286 (hereinafter: the Convention). According to the descriptions contained in the analysed case files, the officer’s actions had various forms of physical and psychological violence against the detained persons: the officers, among others, insulted the detainees, humiliated them, pushed, jerked, slapped on the face several dozen times with an open hand in a  leather glove, hit on the heels with a  truncheon, kicked all over their bodies, choked by putting a plastic bag on the head, subjected to waterboarding by having the head held in washbasin, lifted by the cuffed hands and then threw on the floor, stood on detainee’s chest, used tear gas launchers, hung by the hands cuffed on the back. In one case a detainee was threatened with rape, and in another case, threatened he would be beaten. The victims of the violence were not persons suspected of committing any severe crimes, or members of organized criminal groups. They were suspects and perpetrators of minor offenses (possession of small amounts of marijuana, theft of garden lamps, theft of a bicycle). In a  case pending before the District Court in Bełchatów287 the victim was a young female student detained as a witness in the case concerning organized crime. At the police station, the detainee was many times insulted, ridiculed, jerked and pushed. One of the interrogating officers showed her stains on the room’s walls and suggested they occurred as a result of beating a person up and that the same may be done to her. The young person’s treatment by the officers resulted in her long-term psychological suffering which had to be treated by way of psychotherapy. In another case288, the victims of torture were young men detained for theft of garden lamps. The person who reported the offence did not recognize them as the perpetrators. Still, they were detained and transferred to the Municipal Police Headquarters in Piekary Śląskie, where the officers used physical and psychological violence to force them to admit guilty of other offences regarding property, whose perpetrators had not been identified. The men were seated on chairs while being handcuffed by a single pair of handcuffs. Each of them was then hit on the face several dozen times with an open hand in a glove. One of them started bleeding, the officer told him to go to the bathroom and get washed. The men were still handcuffed. While Dz. U. of 1989, no. 63, item 379. file no. II K 25/15. 288 District Court in Tarnowskie Góry, file no. VI K 539/15. 286 287 99