Rooms for detained persons (PDRs) In the letter of 24 July 201585 to the Police Commander-in-Chief, the Deputy Commissioner for Human Rights requested to predict when the premises indicated by the Police will be fully adjusted to the needs of persons with disabilities and point out premises, which will be adjusted to enable the stay of persons with disabilities, within all voivodeship headquarters. In accordance with the reply of 17 August 2015, the Deputy Police Commanderin-Chief instructed commanders of voivodeship Police headquarters and the Commander of the Warsaw Police Headquarters on 10 August 2015 to, if possible, gradually adjust PDRs so that there is at least one PDR within each Police garrison in which persons with physical disabilities or in wheelchairs can be placed. In another general letter of 17 December 2015 to the Deputy Police Commander-inChief, the Deputy CHR indicated the need to ensure adequate technical conditions for persons with disabilities, which should include the entire infrastructure (from the entrance to headquarters or a Police station, rooms for detainees, toilets), so that detainees and persons brought to sober up will be ensured with conditions allowing for full freedom of movement and self-care. In the letter, the Deputy Commissioner for Human Rights recalled at the same time that the disabled are not only persons in wheelchairs or on crutches. These are also persons with sensory dysfunctions who require appropriate conditions of stay. The Deputy Commissioner for Human Rights once again requested86 the Police Commander-in-Chief to provide information on solutions in voivodeships in which PDR adjustment has been scheduled for 2016-2019 or no time limit has been provided. In his reply of 4 February 2016, the Deputy Police Commander-in-Chief indicated that garrisons, which have not specified any time limit for executing the investments in question or which have only defined a time interval for modernising PDRs, are at the stage of planning the investment of constructing new headquarters of their unit or drafting project documentation for the investments referred to above. Therefore, there are still Police garrisons which lack units adjusted to the needs of persons with disabilities. 5.3 Good practices A valuable initiative observed by the visitors and worth repeating in all Police units is to include issues related to dealing with persons with disabilities in a personnel training offer87. The NPM assumes that dealing with persons with disabilities requires a specific approach which takes into account a specific disability on the one hand, while on the other hand, putting emphasis on ensuring the independence of such persons in performing any actions required at a place of detention. https://www.rpo.gov.pl/pl/content/wyst%C4%85pienie-generalne-z-dnia-24072015-r-do-komendanta-g%C5%82%C3%B3wnego-policji-w-sprawie KMP.570.1.2014 of 17 December 2015. 87 PDRs in: Łomża, Włodawa. 85 86 41