OPINIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE FRENCH CGLPL 3/ The directives issued by the Directorate General of the Gendarmerie Nationale only foresee that everyone in custody is served lunch and dinner. Breakfast with a hot beverage should also be served, officialising the spontaneous practice of the military as was generally observed by the contrôle général. 4/ Everyone should be able to appear before a judge, a prosecutor and a police officer with dignity. An installation should allow individuals that have been in custody since the previous day to wash in the morning and a hygiene kit should be made available. 5/ The supervision of individuals in custody is not satisfactory outside the business hours of service premises, especially at night. As a minimum, a device installed in the cells must allow detainees to alert a service member at all times. 6/ The custody register, foreseen in Article 65 of the Criminal Procedure Code, is an essential document to ensure that the fundamental rights of persons deprived of liberty are respected. It must be complete and reliable, and the traceability of the custody process must be ensured. The previous model, still in place in some units, should be replaced without further delay by the model defined in 2005 by the Directorate General of the Gendarmerie Nationale as it allows for better information confidentiality. 7/ Harmonisation of these registers, used by the Gendarmerie and the National Police, and dematerialisation should be sought, as already indicated by the Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté in its annual report for 2008. This solution would allow the various phases of the custody process to be monitored in real time and to improve the working conditions of the personnel. The Minister has also expressed interest in this suggestion. 34