Because of low salaries and hard working conditions, qualified personnel do not come to work in IAD TDFs. Therefore, TDFs are left to recruit newcomers. In one of the IADs, a driver who used to work in that IAD was appointed a Head of the TDF.266 During an interview one of the Heads of IAD told the following about the recruitment process: “We do prepare staff for working at TDFs and district IABs. However, because we report to the internal affairs department…, all staff members are appointed from there. These people have no experience, practical skills or knowledge. It takes a lot of time for them to get used to our work. As a consequence, the work of the whole district IAB is affected. Officially we are not entitled to object to any candidates appointed.” 267 High personnel turnover is in inherent to all IAD TDFs. For instance, 52.9% of heads of IAB TDFs have worked in their positions for less than one year; each fourth of them has up to two years of working experience in this position, and 23.5% – 3 years and more. Similar situation is with TDF personnel. Diagram 30. Working Experience of TDF Staff Members. TDF personnel rarely take skills improvement courses. Medical examination of members of staff varies from TDF to TDF. Members of some TDFs undergo medical examination twice a year, i.e., every six months, and others do it only once a year. 268 Since TDF personnel have to work with a very difficult cohort of people and they are permanently under stress, it appears crucial to create a wide network of psychological service represented in each territorial department of the Interior Ministry. Specialists will train TDF personnel to use self-management techniques and will help manage stressful situations. The monitoring team would like to emphasize the importance of improving legal consciousness of officials and regular personnel of IAD TDFs in the area of preventing torture and ill-treatment. One of the reasons for this concern and the resulting recommendation is statements of some IAB officials. Example: Head of a TDF said that it is impossible to succeed in investigation without torture.”269 Example: Head of a TDF said to the monitoring team when seeing them off: “It is not a big deal that law enforcement members beat especially dangerous criminals.”270 266 267 268 269 270 Monitoring Report No. 20/16-18/Н/1.0. Monitoring Report No. 5/11/О/1.0. Monitoring Report No. 8/5/П/1.0; 6/5-6-9/П/1.0.; 1/3-9/П/1.0. Monitoring Report No. 6/5-6-9/О/1.0. Monitoring Report No. 8/3-7/Н/1.0. 82