centres, the persons stated that they had been assaulted by police bodies. According to the mentions of these protocols, signs of violence were found (ecchymoses - eyes, nose, shoulder, lower back area, knee; excoriations - elbow, foot; petechiae - arms, the thorax area; contusion). According to the information provided by persons subject to preventive arrest, the signs of violence came: in one case, from hits with fists, palms and rubber bats by policemen; in another case, from police workers when placing handcuffs; in another situation, from police workers. After finding signs of violence, the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Court of Bucharest was notified. The discussions with the medical staff of the visited unit and the submitted documents showed that the signs of violence were included in medical records and in the protocols drawn up upon imprisonment, under signature of the person deprived from freedom, “with the legal action being taken, and a copy of the protocol drawn up upon incarceration being submitted to the Prosecutor’s Office”. The People’s Advocate Institution approached the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Court of Teleorman, requesting information regarding the solutions decided on persons deprived from freedom who claimed they had been physically assaulted by police bodies. The Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Court of Teleorman answered the request, stating that criminal files on crimes of abusive behaviour, abusive investigation, subjection to ill treatment and torture have not been registered against police agents by persons deprived from freedom, based on arrest mandates issued by the judge according to the law.Measures will be taken in order to identify the submission of notes finding traumatic marks by the preventive detention and arrest centre, as well as the solution decided on this by criminal prosecution bodies. ● The field regarding prevention of torture in detention places performed checks regarding the situation invoked by a petitioner who claimed he had been physically assaulted by an employee of the penitentiary. Pursuant to the check of the documents provided by the management of the Bucharest Jilava Hospital Penitentiary, the following were found: the person deprived from freedom stated he had been physically assaulted by the penitentiary agent, which is why he was taken to the medical office where it was found that he showed, at the time of the examination, a 58