Such a solution fails to ensure sufficient safety of intoxicated persons
placed in RDPs and needs to be immediately changed.
Lack of appropriate staff in RDPS
It is the officer on duty in the facility who needs to ensure safety to individuals
placed in RDPs and at the same time allow them to exercise their rights.
Pursuant to current legislation, the head of the unit needs to organize work in
such a way to make sure that there is at least one police officer on duty in the
RDPs48. The findings of the NMPT made in the course of performed inspections
indicate, however, that one person is not able to carry out procedural duties
(completing documentation), control tasks and at the same time make sure that
detainees can exercise their rights (e.g. to use a sanitary facility). Under such
circumstances it may also be particularly difficult to respond to extraordinary
incidents, including suicide attempts. The current work organization may result
in restricted exercise of detainees’ rights and their ill-treatment. Therefore, the
National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture has consistently been arguing
for amending applicable regulations.
Detention of juveniles
In 2018 the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture inspected
12 establishments for juveniles. They included: four youth care centres49, six
police emergency centres for children50, one juvenile detention centre51 and one
juvenile shelter52.
48 Article 2(2) of the order no.130 of the Commander-in-Chief of the Police dated 7 August
2012 on the methods of performing work in the room for detained persons or intoxicated persons who are placed there for the purpose of sobering up (Dz. U. KGP of 2012, item 42, as
amended)
49
YCC Jaworze (KMP.573.1.2018), YCC Kielce (KMP.573.7.2018), YCC Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (KMP.573.8.2018), YCC Zawichost (KMP.573.13.2018).
50
PEC Bydgoszcz (KMP.573.4.2018), PEC Bielsko-Biała (KMP.573.6.2018), PEC Białystok
(KMP.573.9.2018), PEC Gdańsk (BPG.573.1.2018), PEC Opole (KMP.573.14.2018), PEC
Łódź (KMP.574.5.2018).
51
JDC Koronowo (KMP.573.2.2018).
52
JS Koronowo (KMP.573.2.2018).
48
Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities
of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Poland in 2018
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