4. GENERAL INFORMATION AND MAIN STATISTICAL DATA IAB TDFs are police units that are meant for detaining persons arrested on suspicion of committing crimes. TDFs may also be used for the detention of persons accused of crimes, persons held in pre-trial detention facilities, or those moved to TDFs when necessary for: investigations; trial outside residential areas where pretrial detention facilities are located from which it is not possible to bring these persons on a daily basis; and for the period needed for the aforesaid activities and a judicial process, but for no longer than ten days a month. There are 47 IAB TDFs currently functioning in the Kyrgyz Republic. Diagram 1. Quantitative ratio of TDFs across KR regions. The monitoring covered 47 TDFs all over the country. 15