A/HRC/13/39/Add.2 Appendix Places of detention visited and interviews conducted Introduction 1. The Special Rapporteur conducted unannounced visits to detention facilities and was able to hold private interviews with detainees in all facilities he visited. If detainees did not wish that their interviews are recorded, the information provided is only reflected in the general findings of the report. Some detainees only agreed to an anonymous publication of their interviews. Police Commissariat No. 15, Montevideo Visited on 22 March 2009 2. The Special Rapporteur was received by Sergeant Nunez. He was in charge of 160 police officers. The officers worked in three shifts of eight hours. They earned only 5,000 pesos (US$ 200) a month. Many worked an additional eight hours a day for private security companies in the so-called “system 222”. This additional service was official as the police received a share of the salary and the officers acted in their official capacity as police officers. 3. When the Special Rapporteur visited, nobody was detained on the premises. There was one empty and clean cell for minors or women as well as two dark, dirty and stinking cells for men with a concrete floor only. Although the Special Rapporteur was told that the detainees could use the toilets outside the cells if they behaved well, it seemed that in the first cell, which was completely dark and equipped with a dirty toilet, the detainees had to defecate in front of other detainees. Furthermore, based on the smell in the second cell, the Special Rapporteur was able to confirm that detainees urinated in the cell. The police reportedly provided water on request, whereas the family had to bring the food. Colonia Berro – Hogar Las Piedras Visited on 22 March 2009 General information 4. The juvenile detention and educational facilities Colonia Berro, located in a rural area about 50 kilometres outside Montevideo, were established in the 1930s. Colonia Berro comprises various buildings spread over a large area which still serve today as juvenile detention centres, with various detention regimes ranging from minimum to maximum security. The detention centres are administered by the Uruguayan Institute for Children and Adolescents (INAU), under the authority of the Ministry of Social Development. 5. Hogar Las Piedras is a maximum security detention facility for minors between 15 and 18 years. The building is located in the middle of an open field. The day of the visit, 20 boys were detained and six female social workers were on duty. The garden was surrounded by high fences with barbed wire. Outside the fence, the premises were guarded by armed police officers. At each corner of the fence, there was a watch post. The social workers saw their role as educators but admitted that they could hardly manage to fulfil the minors’ basic needs, such as taking them to the toilet. In the cells, there were plastic bottles GE.09-17655 25