recommended that the management of the Territorial Border Police Inspectorate of Iasishould remove metal bars from triage rooms, as well as amend the System Procedure on the organization and operation of the Triage Room of the Border Police to this purpose. The management of the Territorial Border Police Inspectorate of Iasi answered the recommendation that, as of 10.08.2018, the System Procedure on the organization and operation of the Triage Room was amended according to the recommendations of the People’s Advocate Institution by removing metal rods. In the same context, pursuant to the visit at the Retention and Triage Centre of Bors, Bihor county, the People’s Advocate recommended to amend the Decision of the General Inspector of the General Inspectorate of the Border Police no. 11.206/2016 and the System Procedure on the organization and operation of the triage room of the Border Police no. 44/3600/2016, i.e. to remove provisions regarding metal rods in triage rooms, considering that this safety measure is excessive and disproportional, since violent persons or persons known as dangerous were immobilized with handcuffs. Thus, it was considered that video surveillance would represent a sufficient method of supervision that would no longer require immobilization with handcuffs against a metal rod. The General Inspectorate of the Border Police informed that the recommendation on the removal of the handcuff rod from triage rooms was implemented through the amendment of the system procedure regarding the organization and operation of the triage room and the provision of the General Inspectorate on the location and equipment of this area. ► as of the proposal to amend legislation, we note that the People’s Advocate Institution took act ex officio and decided to perform a visit in 2017 to the Preventive Detention and Arrest Centre of the County Police Inspectorate of Cluj, pursuant to the publication in the press and on TV (EvenimentulZilei, Libertatea, observatortv.ro, clujjust.ro and stirilekanald.ro) of information regarding the arrest of a woman, mother of two children, of which a 3-month old baby, for theft. Pursuant to the visit, the Ministry of Justice was asked to analyse and supplement art. 247 of Government Decision no. 157/2016 on the approval of the 46