In addition, all rooms have built-in intercoms and in that way detained person, at all times, can establish
communication with officers.
Looking at the overall condition of the premises for detention, NPM has found that a number of rooms
does not meet the requirements in terms of their size and dimensions provided by the standards of the
European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (hereinafter referred to as CPT), Chapter 1 Police
custody, Excerpt from general report number (CPT / Inf (92) 3), paragraph 43, which states, inter alia:
“police cell intended for single occupancy for stays in excess of a few hours: should have the
surface of 7 square metres, 2 metres or more between walls, 2.5 metres between floor and
ceiling.”
In the 2011 Report of the Protector on the condition of the Police Directorate premises for detention of
persons deprived of their liberty, the Protector noted that a number of premises for detention does not
fulfil the conditions provided for by, at the time current, Rulebook on the conditions that must be met in
facilities for detention of persons deprived of their liberty. Rulebook, Article 3 was stipulating that
"Detention facilities must have adequate surface, depending on the number of persons who
reside in them. Area per person shall not be less than 5m2, whereby the distance from wall to
wall must be at least 2m, the distance from the floor to ceiling of the room should be at least 2.5
meters in order to provide adequate volume."
However, the recommendations given in the report from 2011 have not been implemented in relation to
the dimensions or surface of detention facilities. In that sense, the situation on the field was not
improved, but the regulation – the Rulebook was adjusted to fit the existing premises. More precisely, a
new Rulebook on the conditions that must be met in facilities for detention of persons deprived of their
liberty was adopted, which in Article 2, among other things, provides that: "the surface area of the
detention premises for one person, without equipment and sanitary part, may not be less than
5m2, and if the detention premises are intended for several persons, their surface area must be
1m2 bigger for each subsequent person.” Thus, the current Rulebook on the conditions that must be
met in facilities for detention of persons deprived of their liberty partially is not in accordance with the
standards recommended by the CPT.
4.2.1.2.2. Facilities for interrogation and informative interviews
Interrogation and interviews are conducted in the offices - the official premises of the Police Directorate.
During conducted visits, in these premises were not found non-standard items that could indicate the
possibility of using them for the purpose of intimidation or torture, nor are found traces of such possible
actions.
In the CS Bar in premises for interrogations and interviews, the team found three persons, detained on
reasonable suspicion of having committed the criminal offense of unauthorized production and
trafficking of narcotics. Inspectors on duty at the time of the visit of the NPM team were conducting an
interview with those persons. In the subsequent interview with the members of the NPM team those
persons pleaded no complaints about the treatment of police officers and that they were informed of the
rights they are entitled by the law.
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