CHANCELLOR OF JUSTICE AS THE PREVENTIVE MECHANISM consultation with the Health Care Board or the Estonian Society of Psychiatrists), sufficient regulation for the use of the restraint bed in police detention facilities: including admissibility of the use of the restraint bed as a special measure, substantive preconditions and procedural regulation. The Chancellor also recommended carrying out relevant training for the officers. In addition, the Chancellor proposed to the Police and Border Guard Board to stop immediately the use of the restraint bed (without special fixation straps and without constant supervision by a health care worker) in the antechamber (waiting room) of the sobering-up facility. As a fire safety expert from the Rescue Service Board was involved in the inspection visit, the Chancellor proposed to the Police and Border Guard Board to take into consideration the opinions expressed in the expert report and demand that the owner of the building should improve fire safety in it. Examination of the documents concerning persons brought for sobering up revealed that reports of placement of a person for sobering up did not always indicate the reason for the placement, and therefore the Chancellor proposed to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to amend the form of the report on placement for sobering up, so as to include an indication of specific reasons why a particular person was placed in a sobering-up cell. As an example of good practice, the Chancellor pointed out that an officer is required always to make a record of the inspection of the cells after an inspection round. Such a requirement helps to ensure that the cells are actually inspected in practice. 6. Inspection visit to the detention centre of the public order department of the North Prefecture On 10 November 2010, advisers to the Chancellor of Justice carried out an unannounced visit to the police detention centre of the public order bureau of the North Prefecture under the jurisdiction of the Police and Border Guard Board. The Chancellor also involved rescue service officers as experts in the visit, whose tasks included inspection of compliance with fire safety requirements in the detention centre. Among issues already described above, problems with the duration of stay of persons remanded in custody and with the provision of health services were found. Problems specific to this police facility included the use of two isolation cells in the detention centre, which was not properly recorded by the police officers, and compliance with fire safety requirements. In connection with the documentation of the use of isolation cells, the Chancellor proposed to the Police and Border Guard Board that the use of the two isolation cells should be recorded in a way as to indicate the precise time of the beginning and end of each placement in the isolation cell, the data of the officer deciding the placement, the reasons for the placement, and the times when the person staying in the isolation cell was inspected along with the summary of the inspection. With regard to fire safety in the detention centre of the North Prefecture, experts drew up an opinion and the Chancellor proposed to the Police and Border Guard Board to take the expert opinion into consideration and, in cooperation with the State Real Estate Company (the owner of the building), improve fire safety in the building. The Police and Border Guard Board agreed with the Chancellor’s proposals and noted in its reply that the detention centre had introduced documenting the placement in the isolation cells. In case of a person’s placement in the isolation cell, the officer of the detention centre will fill out a checklist in respect of each detainee, including information on the time and date of beginning and end of the placement, the data of the officer making the decision, and reasons for the placement in the isolation cell. 26 The Police and Border Guard Board also affirmed that the detention centre was planning to organise a training session for the staff on action in case of extraordinary events (including fire) and currently the North Prefecture is also preparing guidance material for the staff of the detention centre on action in case of extraordinary events. The detention centre would also take into account the opinions of the fire safety expert in organising its work and, in cooperation with the owner of the building (the State Real Estate Company) the situation of fire safety will be improved.