PGO-BPOL), the Federal Police is only obliged to feed individuals in custody after six and 12 hours, respectively, and that the main responsibility for this lies with the respective Land authorities. The Federal Agency would nonetheless like to point out that it is unacceptable to leave people without food for such a long period. A solution should be found which ensures where necessary that food is provided to those concerned quickly and unbureaucratically. The Federal Police should in future also specifically notify the accompanying officers of the Land authorities of this problem in order to be able to better identify the persons concerned. The Federal Agency would explicitly welcome a nationwide arrangement regarding the handing out of a lump sum to penniless returnees along the lines of existing decrees on the lump sum payment applicable in individual Federal Länder. The payment of a lump sum is a humanitarian gesture first and foremost, and could moreover also have a deescalating effect. The lump sum was said to enable completely penniless persons to return in dignity and without any additional risk to their own physical and mental integrity. This particularly applies if the returnees still had to cover considerable distances from the arrival airport to their actual destination. Moscow Airport. Although it is within the remit of the Länder to ensure food for the returnees until the transfer at the airport (the short period which the returnees spend at the Federal Police unit prior to departure was said not to justify separate food as a rule), the Federal Police would discuss this topic once more at the clearing agency meeting on air returns. The Federal Ministry of the Interior stated that the problems of the different arrangements regarding the “lump sum” were known and that various bodies had discussed it with the Federal Länder in the past. It was however within the responsibility of the Länder to create appropriate regulations for this. The Federal Police would however also submit this recommendation at the clearing agency meeting on air returns. 3. Federal Police Stations at Hamburg Airport and Hamburg Main Station, as well as the Federal Anti-Crime Police Station in August 2010 The Federal Agency carried out inspection visits at the Federal Police Stations at Hamburg Airport and Hamburg Main Station, as well as at the Federal Anti-Crime Police Station in Hamburg on 24 and 25 August 2010. Here, it also inspected the returns area at Hamburg Airport and carried on talks with several individuals who were about to be returned. Recommendations of the Federal Agency The returns room of the Federal Police Station at Hamburg Airport should be equipped with a two-way intercom or alarm button. This would ensure that individuals to be re- Reaction of the Federal Ministry of the Interior The Federal Ministry of the Interior stated that the installation of the two-way intercom or of an alarm button was currently being examined by the competent construction 27