2.4 VISITS TO POLICE STATIONS 2.4 VISITS TO POLICE STATIONS In 2019, we visited 24 police stations (PS), two border police stations (BPS) and a police station for compensatory measures, i.e.: Ljubljana Šiška PS (25 March 2019), Ljubljana Vič PS (25 March 2019), Postojna PS (25 March 2019), Rogatec BPS (10 April 2019), Celje PS for compensatory measures (10 April 2019), Bistrica ob Sotli BPS (10 April 2019), Radlje ob Dravi PS (8 May 2019), Maribor II PS (8 May 2019), Ruše PS (8 May 2019), Lenart PS (6 June 2019), Gornja Radgona PS (6 June 2019), Lendava PS (6 June 2019), Sežana PS (20 June 2019), Koper PS (20 June 2019), Piran PS (20 June 2019), Velenje PS (17 July 2019), Šmarje pri Jelšah PS (17 July 2019), Rogaška Slatina PS (17 July 2019), Kočevje PS (5 August 2019), Metlika PS (6 August 2019), Gorišnica PS (12 September 2019), Ptuj PS (12 September 2019), Ljutomer PS (18 September 2019), Murska Sobota PS (18 September 2019), Brežice PS (9 October 2019), Krško PS (9 October 2019) and Sevnica PS (9 October 2019); in total, there were 27 places of deprivation of liberty due to police detention or custody. All visits were unannounced. During the visits, we examined the rooms that PS use for discussing and accommodating remand and detained persons deprived of their liberty, and spoke to persons who were in police detention (custody) during our visit in order to determine how police procedures were carried out. We also spoke with police officers and checked individual (randomly selected) cases of police procedures regarding these persons. We also regularly verified the realisation of recommendations made during our previous visit to a certain police station. During the visits in 2019, we also determined that PS realise the NPM recommendations. We only mention some of them below. When visiting Šiška PS, we determined that they had realised the NPM recommendation from the previous visit to renovate or mark detention rooms that are no longer in use as notifications were put on the doors of detention rooms. When visiting Ljubljana–Vič PS, we found that the PS had realised the NPM recommendation made during the previous visit to ensure a suitable number of pillows as it was established that there were now more pillows than during the previous visit. The NPM recommendation that the room for interrogation and conversations with lawyers be equipped with the MNZ poster regarding the rights of persons deprived of liberty and the PIC/IOM poster regarding the process of returning migrants from the Republic of Slovenia and brochures had been realised as the room was now equipped with all necessary brochures and posters. Radlje ob Dravi PS had realised the NPM recommendation to keep an updated list of lawyers as the list of lawyers as of 20 March 2019 was found in a visible place during this visit. Maribor II PS had realised the recommendation to examine the possibilities for video surveillance or openings in the interview room because we determined dur- 46 THE REPORT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA ON IMPLEMENTING THE TASKS OF THE NPM