interrogation room; identification room; lounge; kitchen; commandant’s room; corridors and staircases. According to the information received from the employees of the divisions inspected by the Special Preventive Group, citizens or detainees may be present in any space except for the lounge, commandant’s room and kitchen. Monitoring carried out by the Special Preventive Group showed that not all areas where detainees or citizens may be present, according to police officers, are covered by video cameras. In terms of the coverage of the video surveillance system, the situation is relatively better in the Kobuleti, Chokhatauri, Ozurgeti, Ambrolauri and Kvareli district divisions, as well as in the Imereti, Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti police departments. Most part of the buildings in these police facilities are equipped with video surveillance systems. The situation is radically different in the Khoni, Tkibuli and Terjola district divisions, where there is only one video camera inside the building and it only covers the front door. The table below shows how various spaces are covered by video surveillance cameras in the buildings visited. Fully equipped Partially equipped Not equipped Corridors 14 3 6 Staircases 3 6 13 Workspaces* 19 8 3 Interrogation room 6 0 4 * Common workplaces for detective-investigators and/or district inspector-investigators; individual work rooms; The presence of detainees in the rooms of police chiefs or their deputies and video surveillance of these rooms is an issue that needs to be discussed separately. In 30 divisions visited by the Special Preventive Group, none of such rooms was under audio-video surveillance, whereas these rooms are quite actively used to interview detainees or other persons in the facility.242 During interviews with the Special Preventive Group, detainees and lawyers indicated that the above areas belong to risk groups. According to them, there have been cases of ill-treatment. Therefore, we may assume that the presence of detainees and persons with other status in the rooms of police chiefs or their deputies, which are not under video surveillance, creates the risk of ill-treatment. Therefore, if due to the infrastructure of the facilities, it is necessary to question the above-mentioned persons in the rooms of police chiefs and their deputies, the rooms must be necessarily equipped with a video-surveillance system.243 242 According to the information provided by the police officers, in 30 police facilities, detainees are brought to the room of the police chief or deputy chief in 17 cases and persons with other status - in 25 cases. 243 According to the Public Defender, installation of video cameras in the police facilities, specifically in areas where detainees, witnesses or persons voluntarily invited to an interview may be present, including in working 88