Implementation of Duties and Powers of the National Preventive Mechanism in 2010 Some of the deficiencies recorded: • burnt out light bulb in the detention room (PP Bovec, PP Trebnje and PP Velenje), • in some places, toilet paper was not installed, or there was not space for the paper to be installed (PP Bovec). For example, in PP Trbovlje, the detained person must ring a bell and ask the duty officer to bring paper. The DPM believed that this method of dispensing toilet paper was inadequate and inappropriate, and proposed that the detained person should receive some toilet paper upon accommodation, • upon the discharge of water from the toilet cistern, water runs out of the squat toilet into the room (PP Nova Gorica), even to where the detained person is standing, • dirty walls in detention rooms (PP Postojna), • the fixture on the sink was poorly fixed, which could be potentially dangerous, as the detained person could remove such loosened fixture and use it for an assault or selfinjury (PP Sežana). The DPM suggested the deficiency be eliminated as soon as possible, and the commander already explained during the visit that this would be fixed and the detention room would not be used until then, • three PP (PP Šiška, PP Bovec and PP Trbovlje) were some of the rare PPs not having sheets and pillows. Several PP did not have pillows (PP Ljubljana Vič, PP Sežana, PP Trebnje, PP Novo mesto, PP Šmarje pri Jelšah and PP Velenje); PP Nova Gorica had them but detained persons did not receive them if they were detained for a shorter period only. The DPM proposed that sheets and pillows be delivered to PPs as soon as possible, and that detained persons should receive a pillow, in particular, and when detained overnight. Toilets Except in PP Šiška, the toilets were adequately arranged: the toilet bowl in the rooms for longer detention and squat toilet with flushing in the rooms for shorter detention. In PP Šiška, detained persons cannot flush the toilet by themselves because it is only possible to do so in the lobby, and must therefore call the police officer on duty, which is not appropriate from the perspective of dignity and right to privacy, which we pointed out. Video and audio surveillance The detention rooms of the majority of PP are equipped with video-surveillance and a bell, but in some places there was no warning about video-surveillance, which also applies to audio devices (PP Nova Gorica and PP Slovenske Konjice). Our proposal for the PP to provide a warning (a notice) also in detention rooms was accepted by MNZ, which also assured us they would or had already done. In two PPs (PP Sežana and PP Velenje), the viewing angle of the video-surveillance system also includes the toilet, which is in violation of the Standards on Construction, Adaptation and Equipment of Detention Rooms no. 2152-1-31/500359-2 of 30 September 2002, which the DPM pointed out. The DPM proposed this be eliminated in order to provide privacy for prisoners. In its response, MNZ assured they had made appropriate changes to the videosurveillance system. National Preventive Mechanism in the Republic of Slovenia under the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 27