Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2012 In the majority of visited establishments170, there was no information presented about institutions to which patients can turn when their rights are being violated. 4. Right to health care The analysis of the CCTV recordings from admission of patients revealed that in three establishments171 some persons were not subject to medical examination. The representatives of the Mechanism emphasize that all intoxicated persons should be examined by a physician to ensure their safety. The above obligations also stems from the regulations in place. The visiting team also noted that in two stations172 the medical examination took place in a room with CCTV cameras and often in the presence of the Police officers173. The employees of the NPM are of the opinion that the presence of the Police officers should be limited to the necessary cases justified by circumstances, namely to situations of justified concern about safety of medical personnel. In order to ensure the right to intimacy of each patient during medical examinations, the examinations should be performed in specially designated rooms with no CCTV cameras. Furthermore, the regulations on obligatory medical examinations, as activities strongly interfering with the right to privacy, should be included in the Act on the upbringing in sobriety and counteracting alcoholism. 5. Right to intimacy and privacy The analysis of selected CCTV recordings of the admission of patients to the stations revealed some cases of degrading treatment consisting in the necessity to undress and change clothes in the presence of the Police officers174 or in the monitored room175. The visiting team continue to emphasize that a separate place, inaccessible to third persons and not monitored, screened off, where patients can change their clothes, with any infringement of their right to intimacy and privacy. 170 Sobering-up Station in Zamość, Sobering-up Station in Białystok, Sobering-up Station in Toruń, Sobering-up Station in Włocławek, Sobering-up Station in Piła, Sobering-up Station in Konin, Sobering-up Station in Olsztyn, Sobering-up Station in Warsaw. 171 Sobering-up Station in Toruń, Sobering-up Station in Suwałki, Sobering-up Station in Włocławek. 172 Sobering-up Station in Piła, Sobering-up Station in Chorzów. 173 Sobering-up Station in Białystok, Sobering-up Station in Nowy Sącz, Sobering-up Station in Suwałki, Sobering-up Station in Włocławek, Sobering-up Station in Katowice, Sobering-up Station in Olsztyn, Sobering-up Station in Warsaw. 174 Sobering-up Station in Białystok, Sobering-up Station in Konin. 175 Sobering-up Station in Białystok, Sobering-up Station in Nowy Sącz, Sobering-up Station in Włocławek, Sobering-up Station in Piła, Sobering-up Station in Konin, Sobering-up Station in Katowice, Sobering-up Station in Chorzów. 76