CAT/OP/ITA/1/Add.1 149. With regard to the alleged unnecessary presence of security systems at CIEs, it seems appropriate to point out that during 2015, there were as many as 128 escapes; and during 2016, (as of April 30), there were 14 more escapes. In addition, the Bari CIE has been closed for maintenance work, needed to restore it after the damage of an arson caused by the occupants. A similar fate has to be reported with regard to the structure in Crotone. Similarly, the entire male sector of the CIE in Rome has been more recently closed down due to the fire caused by the occupants; and the Turin Centre has, since last April, only 41 available places left, following the partial closure due to maintenance work to repair the damage by an arson. Para. 84 150. In the event of doubts on the age of the child, which cannot be established through the identification documents, a multidisciplinary process is in place - always to be followed in full respect of the children's rights – in order to determine their age. This is achieved by specialized personnel and with procedures which take due account of the cultural and ethnic origin of the child (including possibly through diplomatic channels). When the abovementioned steps do not result suitable to determine exactly the age of the child, s/he is presumed and considered as a minor. In this regard, the full text of the "Protocol for identification and multidisciplinary holistic assessment of unaccompanied minors’ age" drafted by the inter-regional WG on "Immigrants and Health-care Services" at the Health Commission of the State-Regions Conference, has been transmitted to the Superior Council for Health-Care that has already given to it its positive opinion. 151. At present, this "Protocol” is before the so-called Unified State-Regions Conference in view of a State Regions Agreement, to be shared and enforceable in a uniform manner throughout the national territory. Paras. 88-90 152. With regard to the issue of the certain identification of the foreign prisoners’ nationality, on the 9th June 2015 a Protocol for the activities of identification of foreign inmates’ identity and nationality was signed by the Directorate General for Prisoners and Treatment of the Penitentiary Administration – Ministry of Justice, and the Central Directorate for Immigration and Border Police of the Department of Public Security – Ministry of Internal Affairs. 153. As for said procedure of identification of foreign inmates’ nationality, the objective to be achieved is to establish an effective collaboration9 between the administrative bodies which have the competence on the foreign subject, for whom a procedure of identification of identity and nationality is activated. 154. Such inter-institutional collaboration was developed through effective modalities of exchange of data and information (relevant to ID documents, to travel documents, etc.) concerning the foreign subject and was carried out by implementing IT and telecom instruments for gathering the above-mentioned data (database Siap–Afis, software SidetWeb 2, etc.). Between June and September 2015, the Directorate General for Prisoners and Treatment of the Penitentiary Administration carried out a monitoring in the prisons in order to assess the procedures adopted in that field. 9 28 Article 3 of the Law No. 161 of 30 October 2014, which amended the Consolidated Text on Immigration, provides for that: “ … for the foreign subject who is imprisoned for any reason, the prison governor requires the Questore [Local Head of Police] information about the identity and nationality of the prisoner. In the same cases, the Questore starts the procedures of identification by involving the competent Diplomatic Authorities … To that purpose, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice shall adopt the necessary instruments of coordination.”

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