Place concerned Topic Sub-topic Monitoring of the CGLPL's general recommendations Staffing All places of deprivation of liberty Professional experience Staff (thematic report) Training Ethics Recommendation Each Minister is asked to inform the CGLPL of his/her agreement or disagreement concerning each of the recommendations or observations received and, in the former case, to implement the necessary internal monitoring and follow-up procedures for guaranteeing that the agreement expressed is acted upon as well as, where applicable, initiate the necessary interministerial work. Institutions’ baseline staffing levels must be established with reference to staffs’ real workload, taking account of facilities’ actual occupation rather than their theoretical capacities and incorporating numbers of tasks relating to management of prisoners, their simultaneity in particular. Determination of baseline staffing levels in places of deprivation of liberty must take account of the human aspects of prisoner management, even in cases where technology enables gains in productivity. A high rate of absenteeism seems inevitable in places of deprivation of liberty. It has an immediate negative impact on respect of fundamental rights and preventive measures must be taken to decrease it, including psychosocial assistance in cases of worrying changes, availability of replacements identified in advance or constitution of reserve forces. The risk of less mobile staff falling into routine must be prevented by organising operational mobilities within institutions or in labour pools of appropriate size, organising systematic supervision of isolated services, and ensuring appropriate maintenance and renewal of professional knowledge, ethics and quality of practices. All professionals taking part in management of individuals who have been deprived of their liberty must receive information on such individuals’ status and rights. Professionals whose activities include security missions vis-à-vis individuals deprived of their liberty must undergo (compulsory and regularly updated) training on prevention of violence and management of violence acts. Appropriation of ethical rules must be reinforced, in particular during continuing training and through simulations of situations involving professional ethics. Each administration should set up an inclusive forum enabling appropriation, updating and adaptation of its ethical rules. Administrations should implement the educational and organisational measures required to ensure that professionals taking part in management of individuals who have been deprived of their liberty fully understand their obligation to report any lack of respect for fundamental rights they observe, are able to make such reports and receive appropriate protection. Chapter 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2