the regulation59. That regulation, additionally, fails to indicate persons authorized to perform body searches, premises for their performance as well as the means of appeal against decisions in that regard. Body searches performed in juvenile detention centres and juvenile shelters should be regulated in the act. What still remains to be solved is the problem of an effective mechanism for lodging complaints by juveniles. That issue was discussed in the NMPT’s report for 2015.60 Detention of migrant foreigners In 2018 the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture conducted inspection visits to 3 Closed Detention Centres for Migrants61 and 3 Rooms for Detained Persons of the Border Guard62. Systemic problems Failure to effectively identify torture victims In Poland, there is still no effective system of identifying foreign citizens who have been victims of torture and violence. Even though there is an internal Border Guard algorithm in place in centres for migrants, which specifies the “Rules of proceeding with foreigners requiring special treatment by the Border Guard”, in the opinion of the NMPT, it is incompliant with Polish law, the Istanbul Protocol as The discussion concerns the regulation of the Minister of Justice of 17 October 2001 on juvenile detention centres and juvenile shelters (consolidated text: Dz. U. of 2017, item 487). 60 Cf. Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights concerning the activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Poland in 2015, p. 37. 61 CDC in Lesznowola (KMP.572.2.2018), CDC in Biała Podlaska (KMP.572.3.2018), CDC in Białymstok (KMP.572.4.2018). 62 RDP of the BG in Janów Podlaski (KMP.570.9.2018), RDP of the BG in Terespol (KMP.570.11.2018), RDP of the BG in Bohukały (KMP.570.10.2018). 59 40 PART III - situation in places of detention