The national authorities in their response state that the Veles facility has been closed down and the juveniles transferred to a dedicated wing of Ohrid Prison. Information is also provided on the implementation of other CPT recommendations. 48. The overall atmosphere at Demir Hisar Psychiatric Hospital had improved since the CPT’s visit in 2010. However, several allegations of ill-treatment of patients by staff, as well as of inter-patient violence, were received on certain wards of Skopje Psychiatric Hospital. The living conditions at Demir Hisar and Skopje Psychiatric Hospitals remained, with some exceptions, poor and were exacerbated by the austere and depersonalised environment and the overcrowding in the dormitories. The report also includes recommendations on the application of means of restraint to patients and the necessity to reinforce the legal safeguards surrounding the placement, review and discharge of involuntary hospitalisation measures. At Demir Kapija Special Institution for mentally disabled persons, the report notes that positive relations existed between staff and residents but that inter-resident violence was a problem. Living conditions varied across the establishment, ranging from satisfactory in the A wards to extremely poor in the C wards, where premises were found to be unhygienic and insalubrious and where a number of residents did not have their own bed. There is also a need, inter alia, to reinforce the legal safeguards surrounding their legal capacity and guardianship issues. In their response, the national authorities provide information on the material improvements at Demir Hisar Psychiatric Hospital, as well as the complete refurbishment of the C wards at Demir Kapija Special Institution. Report and response published in March 2016 (CPT/Inf(2016)8 and (CPT/Inf(2016)9) Report on the ad hoc visit to Kosovo1 in April 2015 and the response transmitted by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) (treatment and conditions of detention of persons in police custody, situation in penitentiary establishments and in psychiatric establishments) 49. The CPT’s delegation received a significant number of allegations from detained persons of physical ill-treatment by police officers. Most of the allegations concerned slaps, punches and kicks, in the context of police questioning, with a view to extracting confessions, or at the time of apprehension after the person concerned had been brought under control. The Committee stresses the need for the relevant authorities to take additional vigorous action, including during in-service training, to combat the phenomenon of police ill-treatment. In their response, the authorities provide information on additional training provided to police officers on the use of force as well as updated information on the number of complaints about police ill-treatment and the outcome of criminal/disciplinary proceedings which have been instituted as a result. 1. All reference to Kosovo, whether to the territory, institutions or population, in this text shall be understood in full compliance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo. General Report of the CPT, 2016 ► Page 26