ensuring that staff directly in contact with juveniles are able to function in conditions favorable to the efficient fulfillment of their duties.253 The personnel shall possess an adequate standard of education and intelligence. Before entering on duty, the personnel shall be given a course of training in their general and specific duties and be required to pass theoretical and practical tests. After entering on duty and during their career, the personnel shall maintain and improve their knowledge and professional capacity by attending courses of in-service training to be organized at suitable intervals.254 As far as possible, these personnel should include enough number of specialists such as psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, teachers and trainers of technical disciplines.255 In-country Legislation Internal Regulations in the Internal Affairs Bodies and Interior Ministry’s educational institutions shall be established in accordance with the Kyrgyz Republic legislation, based on specificity of these authorities’ activities, and in accordance with the procedure specified by the Minister. Standard rules of internal regulations of IABs, working schedule and timetable for individual categories of staff shall be subject to approval by the Minister.256 Working hours of members of staff shall comply with law of the Kyrgyz Republic. IAB members of staff may be asked to work overtime and also at night time, on week-ends and holidays, when and if necessary, and be granted additional days-off later in that month or be compensated in accordance with the procedure established by KR law. In the event of shift work, day, evening and night shifts shall have the same duration. Working procedure and conditions for members of staff in the areas with harmful conditions, as well as for those working overtime and at night time, shall be regulated by Kyrgyz law. Sanitary & technical and hygienic state of production premises, equipment of workplaces and organization of a work flow must not have any harmful impact on a person’s health and shall comply with standards approved by the authorized state healthcare authority of the Kyrgyz Republic.257 In order to prevent emergence and spread of infectious and professional diseases, members of staff… involved in working in harmful conditions are obliged, before employment, to undergo preliminary and then regular preventive medical examinations in accordance with the procedure approved by the authorized state healthcare authority of the Kyrgyz Republic.258 It follows from the assessments of the monitoring teams that the work of IAB TDF personnel is very hard. First of all, this is due to difficult every-day conditions. Due to lack of space, there are no rooms for personnel in almost 50% of the TDFs. None of the TDFs have recreation or eating rooms for personnel. Since most TDFs do not have hot or cold water supply or sewerage, members of staff work in conditions that do not meet basic sanitary requirements. There is no ventilation in most TDFs, lighting is inadequate, and chairs and tables are extremely worn out. Example: Excerpt from the observation card at the At-Bashy IAD TDF: “There is no separate room for personnel. A table is in the corridor, in the corner. The floor is concrete, air is conditioned through the corridor, and one can smell damp.” 259 Example: Excerpt from the observation card at the Kadamzhay IAD TDF: “In winter it is cold, in summer it is stuffy. Ventilation system should be repaired, heating arranged, floors made warm, and TDF repaired after the earthquake.” 260 253 255 256 257 258 259 260 254 UN Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of Their Liberty, rule 84. Minimum Standard Rules, rule 47; UN Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of Their Liberty, rule 85. Minimum Standard Rules, rule 49; UN Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of Their Liberty, rules 81, 82. Regulation on the Order of Service by Regular and Command staff of the KR IA Bodies, par.74, 75. KR Law on “Public Health”, Art. 15. KR Law on “Public Health”, Art. 17. Monitoring Report No. 14/2/КП/1.0. Monitoring Report No. 22/20/П/1.0, 80