I Under the provision contained in subparagraph (b), article 19, of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, I recommend that measures should be taken in order to improve the detention conditions of the Regional Police Command in Madeira, in terms of both physical spaces as the procedures adopted, namely: i) The positioning of the declaration model of rights and duties of the detainees, in order to be relocated at the detention spaces. The version of the text should include recent amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure; ii) Installation’s conditions improvement, particularly of the light spots existing in the cells, by strengthening the metal grid protection; iii) Regarding the patient’s transportation (compulsory inpatient), the vehicles’ characteristics should be evaluated, in order to consider their adaptation. II The position described above follows the visit made on the 26th November, 2014 by the NPM(18). In accordance with the preventive character of the NPM(19), the object of this diligence was gauging the compulsory inpatient procedures carried out by the Regional Police Command, as well as the agents’ working conditions (particularly the displaced elements), and the existing conditions of detention spaces, in terms of lighting, insulation against cold/heat and ventilation. At the organisational level, a total of three holding cells were identified, located on the ground floor of the building, not interacting with the areas open to the public. Each cell is prepared to receive one detainee, with satisfactory natural lighting and airing conditions. Any of the detention spaces involves artificial light coming from a bright spot, based in the wall connected to the anteroom, above the door. Despite this, it was concluded that the luminous point existent in each cell was not protected by a metal grid and could be easily used by the detainee. The panels with the rights and duties of the detainees are prominently displayed in the graduated room, in five languages besides Portuguese, in a space with no exposition for their intended purpose. As previously said, it is necessary to consider the respective publicity in other parts of the station (v.g., cell zone and in the lobby of the station entrance). (18)  In Portugal, the quality of National Preventive Mechanism has been attributed to the Ombudsman, through the Council of Ministers Resolution no. 32/2013, May 20th. (19)  The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which intend to establish a system of regular visits undertaken by independent international and national bodies to places where people are deprived of their liberty, in order to prevent torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, was ratified by Portugal in 2012, through the Decree of the President of the Republic no. 167/2012, of December 13th. | 77