3 recommendations issued to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia concerned provision of information to the detainees about their rights. In the first recommendation, the Public Defender/Special Preventive Group called on the Ministry to develop guidelines/instructions for police officers on how to inform detainees of their rights. This recommendation has been endorsed by the Parliament of Georgia and has been reflected in its resolution. The recommendation has been partially implemented. According to the reply received from the Ministry,205 the Human Rights and Investigation Quality Monitoring Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs drew up a recommendation on the methodology of drawing up an arrest document, which is intended for the law enforcement officers who have to authority to arrest. The recommendation emphasizes the importance of informing detainees of their rights. According to the reply received, the recommendation is currently undergoing final editing and will be sent to the relevant territorial bodies of the Ministry in the near future, the implementation of which will be monitored by the Department. The reply also reads that the Ministry drafted a document on the detention standard procedures, which provides instructions on the provision of information to the detainee about his/her rights. According to the reply, the document is being legally examined and amended at this stage. In the second recommendation, the Special Preventive Group called on the Ministry to provide police departments, divisions and stations with written booklets on the rights of the detainee for the purpose of handing them over to the detainees, as well as to make the contact details of the Public Defender's hotline available on the walls of the police buildings. This recommendation has been partially endorsed by the Parliament of Georgia and has been reflected in its resolution. In particular, the Parliament did not endorse the first part of the recommendation, which concerned the provision of written booklets on the rights of the detainee to the police departments, divisions and stations for their further provision to the detainees. The recommendation had not been implemented during the reporting period.206 Nevertheless, it should be welcomed that communication was held with the Public Defender's Office on the initiative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2020, during which, the Ministry was provided with information about the Public Defender's contact details to be posted up on the walls of the police buildings. In addition, the Public Defender/Special Preventive Group was promised that the second part of the recommendation relating to the development of written booklets on the rights of the detainee and their provision to police departments, divisions and stations would be implemented. 3 recommendations issued to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia concerned the documentation of injuries in isolators. In particular, in the first recommendation, the Special Preventive Group requested an increase in the number of isolators that had medical rooms and the documentation of bodily injuries of persons placed in these isolators in accordance with the rules established by Order No. 691 of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia. The recommendation has been endorsed by the 205 Reply MIA 8 20 00380695 received from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia on February 12, 2020. See the chapter on safeguards against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Informing detainees of their rights. 206 76