interpreter or bilingual person, 3. the consent of the prisoner to the deployment of a bilingual person and his awareness that a bilingual person has no duty of confidentiality. The Federal Ministry of the Interior also considered the suggestion of the NPM that prisoners always be given the case history sheets in their native language in the future to be valuable advice. It is gratifying to note that the Federal Ministry of the Interior was willing to implement almost all of the proposals of the NPM. In the view of the NPM, the use of the three-stage process described by the Federal Ministry of the Interior seems likely to ensure good verbal communication between physicians and prisoners. The NPM also sees the ongoing sensitisation of police physicians as an important step toward avoiding communications deficits and misunderstandings in the course of medical examinations. Ministry implements proposals to a large extent The version of Detention Log III newly revised by the Federal Ministry of the Interior should now make the fact whether interpreters or bilingual persons are deployed for medical examinations clear and transparent. More precise information from prisoners in the case history sheets which are provided to them in their native languages will contribute to a better informed assessment of the health status of detained persons by police physicians in the future. The NPM hopes that the physicians working in police detention centres are aware of their responsibility to make a proper assessment of the health status of prisoners, which always presupposes good verbal communication.    An interpreter or a bilingual person must be deployed when conducting a medical examination of a non-German-speaking detainee. Information regarding the deployment of an interpreter or a bilingual person must be documented in the detention logs. Every prisoner must be provided with the medical case history sheet in his or her native language regardless of any knowledge of German. 2.6.3 First impressions of the new Vordernberg detention centre During the last reporting year, the Federal Ministry of the Interior informed the NPM of the construction of a new detention centre in Vordernberg devoted exclusively to detention pending forced return. With the Vordernberg detention centre, which is designed for 200 prisoners, the Federal Ministry of the Interior sought to reform detention pending forced return in line with the latest knowledge and standards (see NPM Report 2013, p. 73). The Vordernberg detention centre was placed in operation after receipt of the workplace authorisation on 28 February 2014. 127 Detention centre placed in operation