Rooms for detained persons Defender filed a notification of a suspicion of a criminal offence to the prosecuting authority. Coercive measures were not used in other establishments or the visiting team did not find any infringements in their application. Strip searches are another area of interest for the NPM representatives when examining the treatment of detainees. In some detention rooms123 the practice found by the visiting team was to carry out strip searches in a place under CCTV surveillance or in connecting area (corridors, halls) accessible for other people. The CCTV surveillance of detained persons during strip searches is a gross invasion of their privacy. The NPM employees are of the opinion that carrying out strip searches under CCTV surveillance or in the presence of other people is unacceptable and may constitute degrading treatment of a detained person. During each visit the NPM employees also examine the scope and content of trainings for the staff. They found that the professional trainings usually focused on the knowledge of legal regulations concerning the functioning of these rooms and the service performed in PDRs. Considering the above, the visiting team found that there was a need to extend the scope of the trainings to include additional subjects so that the staff of a detention room know how to work with difficult detainees without harming them, how to provide first aid to persons in various physical or mental states, how to cope with stress and aggression, how to systematically update this knowledge and, finally, how to improve their skills. 2.  Right to health care Apart from problems classified as systemic, an issue that still requires improvement is the documentation of health care services provided to detained persons. In some of the visited establishments the NPM employees found that medical examination was performed even though the police officers indicated in the detention protocols that a  person that was sober did not report any health problems124. The NPM representatives reiterate that in order to establish whether detained persons and persons brought to sober up were provided with adequate health care, it is also necessary to keep reliable documentation, both the referral to medical examination and a book of medical visits. The visiting team found that the medical records lacked the date and time of medical examinations, the signature of a doctor and even personal details of the person examined125. PDR in Końskie, PDR in Jędrzejów, PDR in Trzebnica, PDR in Tczew, PDR in Żary. PDRs: Warszawa IV, Kościerzyna, Zgorzelec, Warszawa Wawer, Wałbrzych, Tuchola, Ostróda, Oleśnica, Końskie, Jędrzejów, Biskupiec, Łódź. 125 PDRs: Żagań, Zgorzelec, Wałbrzych, Trzebinia, Środa Śląska, Olsztyn, Oleśnica, Jędrzejów, Brzozowo, Biskupiec. 123 124 65

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