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the swedish migration agency
will continue to be an important issue for the Parliamentary Ombudsmen’s
OPCAT operation.
Another recurring issue that covers the supervisory areas of several Parliamentary Ombudsmen concerns so-called security placements of detainees.
This means that a detainee who is segregated for security reasons is considered not able to be held in a detention centre, and is instead placed at the
Prison and Probation Service, preferably in a remand prison. The question of
when a decision on a security placement is made, how a review of a security
placement decision is made and the conditions for detainees placed in the
Prison and Probation Service have been the subject of statements and recommendations from the Parliamentary Ombudsmen for more than a decade.
Due to the fact that the Parliamentary Ombudsman has stated that detainees
should, in principle, not be placed with the Prison and Probation Service
and that there is still uncertainty concerning what the Swedish Migration
Agency’s responsibility for these individuals is exactly, it will be a continued
priority when examining detention centres.
Finally, the organisation of health and medical care at detention centres can
be mentioned. The Swedish Migration Agency is not a care provider, and
the formal responsibility for detainees’ health and medical care rests with
the regions. What the access to health and medical care actually looks like,
therefore, varies from detention centre to detention centre. The question of
detainees’ access to an initial medical examination has also been the subject
of repeated international criticism, and the Parliamentary Ombudsman has,
for example, on several occasions highlighted shortcomings in the information provided to detainees concerning their access to health and medical care.
There may be reason to pay attention to this issue in future inspections.
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