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In the course of the reporting period, the NPM recommended closure of two rooms for police
detention80, for the reason that they did not meet the applicable standards in terms of special
accommodation conditions and indicated the need to adapt certain rooms for detention81, as
well as adaptation of the accommodation conditions with the current standards. The responses
of the police administration indicated that the rooms in the police stations in Batočina and
Kuršumlija were no longer used as rooms for detention, whereas those police stations and
administrations that were recommended to adapt and renovate rooms for detention, acted in
line with the financial and technical possibilities. In the course of 2015, as well as in the past years,
it was observed that in certain police stations82 due to lack of sufficient number of rooms for
detention, persons were occasionally detained in the office of emergency services. Likewise, it
is observed that due to lack of adequate rooms for detention in certain police stations83 persons
deprived of their liberty were transferred to other police stations or administrations84, which
makes their work more difficult and complicated and increases security risks for both detained
persons and the acting police officers.
In the course of the NPM visits to certain police administrations and police stations, it was
observed that with the assistance provided by the local governments, material conditions in the
detention rooms had been improved in the Police Administrations in Kikinda and Kraljveo,
Police Stations in Vrnjačka Banja and Lučani in Guča, Aranđelovac, Lapovo and Bela Palanka
and Traffic Police Station in Čačak. Police Station in Knjaževac improved its accommodation
conditions within its detention premises after the recommendations of the Protector of Citizens
had sent them. However, there are still a lot of police detention premises that are unsuitable.
Another observed deficiency in the Police Stations Kragujevac, PS Lapovo, PCI Čačak, PS
Lučani, PS Bela Palanka, is that the area around sanitation fixture is also covered by CCTV
which constitutes violation of privacy of detainees and disrespect for their dignity. Certain
police stations85 acted in line with the recommendation and they eliminated the mentioned
deficiency. Certain police administrations and stations86 stated that they would comply with
the recommendations in line with their financial possibilities, whereas some of them87 stated
that they did not have technical possibilities to comply with this recommendation.
After NPM recommendation issued in 2015 to the visited police administrations88, detainees
are being served with the written explanations about the rights, and the signed copy of the
document is stored within the file on detention. Likewise, in the course of 2015, after the NPM
recommendations, the Ministry of the Interior translated the forms on the rights into the
minority languages, specifically into: Hungarian, Albanian, Romani and Romanian languages.
It was observed that certain police administrations89 where persons were detained in line with
the Law on Criminal Procedure in the prison premises, did not present the transcripts on
detention neither for inspection nor for signature upon completion of detention. The police
administrations acted in line with the NPM recommendations, except in the PA Bor that stated
that it is not able to give the transcript on detention for signature to those persons detained in
line with the LCP.
Despite the fact that in line with the new Law on Criminal Procedure detention is to be ordered
by a Public Prosecutor, as a rule it is still the Ministry of the Interior that bears all costs related
Rooms for detention in the PS in Batočina and PS in Kuršumlija
Rooms in the headquarters of the PA Leskovac, PA Niš, PA Prokuplje, PA Zaječar, PA Bor, PA Raška, PA
Babušnica, PA Dimotovgrad, PA Blace, PA Soko Banja, PA Negotin and PA Kladovo.
82 PA Čačak
83 PS Majdampek
84 In the rooms of the PA Bor
85 PS Bela Palanka
86 PCI Čačak, PS Lučani in Guča
87 PA Kragujevac and PS Lapovo
88 PA Čačak, PA Kikinda, PA Kragujevac, PA Niš, PA Bor PA Zaječar and PA Prokuplje
89 PA Čačak, PA Pirot, PA Prokuplje, PA Zaječar, PA Bor
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