In the Linz police detention centre, the toilets in many cells are also not (completely) walled in. In some cases, there is not even a curtain as visual protection. In this case, the Federal Ministry of the Interior gave its assurance that inmate cells in which the toilet is not walled off will not be occupied by more than one person until structural improvements have been made. Based on this assurance by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the the NPM will – for the time being – not voice any criticism.     No complaints about the Linz police detention centre The toilet areas in the two-person cells at the Salzburg police detention centre must be structurally separated. The toilet area in the eight-person cell at the Steyr police detention centre must be structurally separated. The toilet areas in the cells for multiple inmates at the Graz police detention centre must be structurally separated. The cells for multiple inmates at the Linz police detention centre without (fully) walled in toilet areas shall not house more than one prisoner until they have been renovated. 2.6.2.4 Communication during medical examinations In the course of a visit to the Innsbruck police detention centre, the commission gave intensive scrutiny to communication between physicians and prisoners. According to the recommendations of the CPT, special attention should be paid to the physical and mental condition of prisoners in detention facilities. Good knowledge of the language is indispensable Above all, good communication between physicians and prisoners is necessary for a proper assessment of the state of their health. An assessment of the mental state of a prisoner requires a precise verbal exchange with the prisoner being examined. However, this can only be conducted in a language that the examiner and the examinee have sufficiently mastered. Otherwise, an interpreter or a bilingual person must be deployed. Knowledge of the so-called “small talk” vocabulary of a language is not sufficient for the examiner or the examinee if a thorough examination is to be conducted. When perusing the patient records of all of the persons detained at the Innsbruck police detention centre at the time of the visit, the commission noted that no interpreter or bilingual person had been consistently deployed for four prisoners whose native language was not German. However, the NPM considers the deployment of an interpreter – or at least a bilingual person – to always be indispensable when conducting medical examinations of detainees who do not speak adequate German. The commission also noted a need for improvement in the formulation of Detention Log III, which must be maintained for new admissions, and which must, inter alia, contain a notation if an interpreter or 125 Changes to the detention log