Police detention centres
The examination for fitting all cells at Eisenstadt police detention centre with
TV connections and sockets is underway. The refurbishment plans for Salzburg
and Graz police detention centres already include these fittings. The fitting
of all cells at Villach police detention centre with sockets is due as part of the
already planned refurbishment.
Reports from the visits indicate that, contrary to the objective of the standards
adopted by the working group, there is no nationwide occupational
opportunities programme.
Also the implementation of the structural standards regarding hygiene
adopted by the working group varies greatly in the police detention centres.
According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the common shower facilities
at Eisenstadt, Villach, St. Pölten, Wels, Hernalser Gürtel and Roßauer Lände
police detention centres thus have privacy or partition walls between the
individual showers. With the exception of Bludenz police detention centre,
the installation of such partitions in the shower facilities of the other police
detention centres is already planned. At the same time, the complete structural
separation of the toilet in cells for multiple inmates is also planned for Wels,
Salzburg and Graz police detention centres.
Different arrangement of
showers and toilets
Besides, the information from the Federal Ministry of the Interior indicated that
there are different possibilities for storing personal belongings in the cells. For
example, there are lockable lockers in the cells of Eisenstadt, Wels, Salzburg,
Graz, Hernalser Gürtel and Roßauer Lände police detention centres. There
are open shelves in Klagenfurt, small shelves in Bludenz, and small shelves
with doors in St. Pölten police detention centres respectively. The Ministry
promised to include the possibility of storing away personal belongings during
the planned refurbishment in Villach and Wiener Neustadt police detention
centres.
Somewhere to store
personal belongings in
the cells
The NPM will monitor the announced measures for improvement and other
information during its visits. Only when the standards set forth in the decree
of May 2019 are finally realised, has the Federal Ministry of the Interior
implemented the recommendations.
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