2014-2015 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE in legal acts; disabled persons do not always have access to premises without additional difficulties; there no possibilities to wash one’s clothes and sheets, and persons who do not have appropriate clothing are not supplied with clean clothes according to the season; detainees and convicts are transported from institutions of imprisonment to police custody facilities for interrogation and other pre-trial investigation actions even though the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment criticized this practice several times and proposed to stop it. 2014: custody facilities and premises of temporary detention of the Police Headquarters of Alytus County (9 June 2015 Report No 2015/1-54) and custody facilities and premises of temporary detention of Elektrėnai Police Station of the Police Headquarters of Vilnius County (5 June 2015 Report No 2015/1-61). The following are the main problems and human rights violations identified: 1. Regarding an insufficient number and competence of officers as well as their working conditions – Not all the positions of officers are filled in, working conditions could be assessed only as satisfactory, not everywhere officers have a possibility to upgrade their qualifications often enough and in some institutions officers demonstrated inappropriate attitude towards detained persons. 3. Regarding ensuring of safety – Rubber bats carried by officers are quite noticeable even though such practice is not necessary for ensuring safety and does not promote good relations between the staff and detainees; when the liberty of persons is restricted, not all characteristics determining their assignment to a risk group or a group of vulnerable persons and special needs are taken into consideration, not all police stations and police headquarters follow the requirements of isolation of persons; not everywhere interrogation rooms are appropriately installed and video recordings of interrogations are made. 2. Regarding detention conditions and supply – Persons are still kept in premises the area of which is less than 2 m2 (even if for very short periods of time), not everywhere the minimum living space provided for one person held in custody (5 m2) is ensured, not everywhere premises are clean enough and appropriate ventilation, natural lighting and dignified personal hygiene conditions are ensured; in all police stations and police headquarters, the environment of courtyards used for taking a walk should be improved; due to the condition of meeting rooms, persons’ right to see people is not adequately ensured; not always the timeframe of detention of persons in premises of temporary detention provided for in legal acts is observed; detained persons are not always supplied with appropriate and sufficient hard and soft inventory provided for 4. Regarding organization of nutrition and health care – The quality of food supplied to custody facilities is not always checked; there were doubts as to whether the food supplied was of adequate nutritional value and whether menus were drawn up taking into account physiological nutrition standards of different groups of persons; in one custody facility, detainees are not allowed to 23