The nutritional standards were approved by the Resolution of the KR Government as of February 8, 2008, No. 42 on “Approval of Daily Allowance Rates, Rates of Replacement, Rules for Application and Replacement of Daily Allowance Rates of Convicted Persons as well as Persons Held in Pre-trial Detention Facilities of the Penal Enforcement System of the Ministry of Justice of the Kyrgyz Republic”. The Internal Regulations state that food for suspected and accused persons shall be delivered by the TDF officer-on-duty. TDF detainees shall have meals in their cells. Dish washing and disinfection are subject to mandatory use of detergents and disinfectants in the food heating room.105 Drinking water shall be delivered to the cells daily and as needed.106 Number of Meals and Quantity of Food In response to the written request about nutrition of detainees of IAB TDFs, the KR Interior Ministry replied that “persons placed in IAB TDF of the republic ... are provided with three meals a day every day (breakfast - tea and bread, lunch - a hot meal, supper - tea and bread, boiled water is given all the time).” The monitoring showed that in all IAB TDFs, except for the Panfilov and Jeti-Oguz District IAB TDFs, hot meals for the detainees are provided once a day. In most cases, food is cooked either in a cafe located nearby the IAB to which the TDF is assigned, or in a canteen at the IAB with which the IAB administration enters into a corresponding contract. In the Panfilov and Jeti-Oguz District IAB TDFs, hot meals are provided to the detainees twice a day. For instance, in the Panfilov District IAB TDF, the detainees are provided with tea with sugar and bread as breakfast, and hot meals for lunch and dinner. The detainees in the Jeti-Oguz District IAB TDF are fed three times a day with two hot meals. Can with hot food. Food is cooked in the canteen and bakery under the District IAB. There were no complaints received about the quality or the quantity of food given to prisoners in these two institutions, in contrast with most of the other TDFs. In the rest of the TDFs, detainees are provided with hot meal once a day (one hot dish), and they are given tea and bread mornings and evenings. In a number of TDFs, the detainees are provided a hot meal once a day. Twice a day, in the morning and in the evening, they are given boiled water instead of tea and without bread (for example, the Karabuura District IAB TDF) or boiled water and bread (the Bishkek city IAD, IADT. and Talas City IAD TDFs). However, not in all of the TDFs it is envisaged to provide food as hot meals due to lack of the room for heating food (the Kochkor and Kemin District IAB TDFs, etc.). Numerous complaints received from the detainees were about the quality and quantity of food provided. Food Financing in IAB TDFs The monitoring revealed the violation of the procedure of funding TDFs through the state budget as stipulated by law. 105 106 Internal regulations. Par. 5.15. Internal regulations. Par. 2.2. 48