NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM AGAINST TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT 2019 Ithe Psychiatric Clinic of the General Hospital of Volos, during the transportation of patients for involuntary treatment, armed police officers entered the area in uniform and refused to wait outside the clinic until the admission procedure was completed. Furthermore, in the absence of specially trained nurses, the Clinic requested the assistance of the police in order to mechanically restrain the patients (using sheets), whereas the restraints were not recorded in detail in a special register as it was provided in the relevant legislation. 5.c. Remarks on inspected psychiatric clinics: “Achillopouleio” General Hospital Psychiatric Clinic On the day of our inspection, four patients were involuntarily committed. Their time of involuntary psychiatric treatment varied from three weeks up to one month, whereas the maximum time for involuntary psychiatric treatment was three months and its extension required a special assessment. The clinic has 14 beds which are allocated in three-bed, two-bed and single bed rooms. After one of the floors had shut down, it was no longer possible to separate voluntary and involuntary psychiatric treatment patients. According to the “Achillopouleio” Volos General Hospital Psychiatric Clinic - inspection on 1/10/19 58