As could be gathered from the conversations with TDF staff members, medical examinations are carried out in regional medical facilities by duty doctors. For instance, the medical examination of each newcomer in the TDF in the Ton region is carried out by doctors from the Family Medicine Centre (FMC). In August 2012, a contract was signed on free medical examination of detainees admitted to the TDF. Earlier, staff members of the TDF and operative officers of the DDI were paying 25 KGS for each certificate using their own resources. In the TDF of the At-Bashy region, medical examination is carried out by medical assistants from the Family Doctors Group. Examination of a torture victim in the TDF under the Sokuluk DDI In the TDF under the Bishkek Chief Interior Department, according to the official reply of the Chief Department for Public Safety under the MoI99, medical examination is carried out by medical assistants in the medical worker’s room inside the TDF, and examination results are registered in the examination log used for those under investigation who are placed in the TDF. In a number of cases, when medical examination is carried out in the regional hospital, its procedure, as can be gathered from the interviews, leaves the impartiality of medical workers from the health care system in serious doubt. Some respondents reported that before they were placed in a TDF, they were taken to a hospital, but the doctor neither examined them nor asked any questions. A police officer accompanying them would enter the doctor’s office and come out with a certificate about the detainee’s state of health. From a monitoring group report: “There was no medical examination; before they placed me in a TDF, they just received a certificate from the hospital.”100 From a monitoring group report: “They carried out an examination, but a little later, when the bruises were gone.”101 From a monitoring group report: “They carried out an examination only two weeks after I was admitted to a TDF.”102 From a monitoring group report: “There was no examination; the policeman just went in and got a certificate from the doctor.”103 In other cases medical workers did not document bodily injuries even if there were obvious signs of beating on a detainee’s face and body. From a monitoring group report: They carried out a medical examination, but did not register the bruises.”104 99 Letter of the Chief Department for Public Safety under theMoI , Ref. No. 11/934, of 11 June 2012. Monitoring group report, No. 1-7/40, 1-5/11. 101 Monitoring group report, No. 1-5/38. 102 Monitoring group report, No. 1-5/31. 103 Monitoring group reports, No. 1-2/4, 1-2/8. 104 Monitoring group report, No. 1-7/44. 100 69