supported by the Parliament’s Committee for Human Rights and Freedoms on its session of 6 June 2013. 4.2. Activities in 2013 4.2.1. Police detention facilities In 2013 (in period from May - December) the NPM conducted 17 visits to detention facilities of the Police Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in the Centers of Security Bar, Budva, Berane, Herceg Novi, Niksic, Podgorica, Pljevlja and Departments of Security Andrijevci, Danilovgrad, Kotor, Tivat, Plužine, Plav, Rozaje, Ulcinj, Zabljak and Šavnik. Visits were conducted during and after working hours and during state and religious holidays, according to a predefined plan and working methodology. All visits were unannounced, and five were conducted at night (Podgorica, Ulcinj, Bar, Kotor and Budva). Visits to detention premises of: CS Bijelo Polje, DS Cetinje, Mojkovac and Kolasin were made in the second quarter of 2014, and will be the subject of the Report of the NPM for 2014. During visits, the NPM team members were provided with unrestricted access to all areas where persons deprived of their liberty are accommodated, premises for the interrogations and informative interviews, and other areas for which they have expressed interest to visit, as well as with unrestricted insight to requested documentation. Officers of the Police Directorate have shown the necessary level of cooperation and were providing additional information whenever they were asked. The purpose of these visits was an insight into the respect for the rights of persons deprived of their liberty, control of conditions in detention facilities, the number and area and volume of rooms, prescribed furniture, bedding, type and intensity of light in rooms, with a special emphasis on the ability to read written text without activating the artificial light, heating, ventilation, hygiene conditions in premises, equipment of sanitary facilities, access to potable water, way of communicating of officers with detained persons, video surveillance. During the visits interviews were conducted with the present persons, it was verified whether the premises for conducting interrogations and informative interviews are supplied with non-standard items, which could be used for intimidation, abuse and torture, the vehicles that are used for the transport of persons deprived of their liberty were inspected, police records, with special reference to the register of persons deprived of their liberty and detained persons have been also checked but also duration of detention of persons deprived of their liberty, the right to meals, the way of making and keeping the minutes on detention, storage of seized objects and other. 4.2.1.1. Treatment of persons deprived of their liberty During the visits to the organizational units of the Police Directorate, in the detention premises of the Centres of Security Bar, Budva and Podgorica, five (5) detained persons were found, and interviews with them were conducted without the presence of officials, as follows: - - In CS Podgorica, in a single room the team found detained SH.GJ, citizen of the Republic of Albania, who was detained according to the decision of the Basic State Prosecutor in Podgorica, up to 48 hours, and whose detention was accompanied by adequate documentation. In the interview the person said that he was told his legal rights in his mother tongue, as well as that the officers treated him in a fair and professional manner. In CS Bar in triple room were accommodated two (2) detained persons: N.P, citizen of the Republic of Serbia and A.Z, citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, residing in Bar, according to the decision of the Basic State Prosecutor in Bar, up to 48 hours, whose detention was 9