2014-2015 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE
the internal regulations of custody facilities,
in some custody facilities (cells) the internal
regulations are not posted on the wall, citizens
of foreign states are not familiarized with
their rights, obligations and prohibitions in a
language they understand (the internal regulations of police custody facilities are available
only in Lithuanian).
use their own metal spoons; persons brought
to custody facilities do not always receive a
check-up by a health care specialist within
24 hours, sometimes because there is no
medical office in the facilities, while in one
custody facility the medical office did not have
a permission-hygiene passport and medicinal
products kept in the office were unsuitable for
use; in one custody facility detainees did not
have a possibility to see a psychologist; there
were cases when medical documents were
not filled in appropriately.
Recommendations following inspections
in Police Custody Facilities
5. Regarding shortcomings of the Electronic
Register – During inspections, it was established that as from 9 February 2015 data
on persons kept in premises of temporary
detention or custody facilities were uploaded
into the Electronic Register, however, the
new Register did not contain all data on
the duration of the persons’ presence in the
police station/headquarters and premises of
temporary detention, or on the fact whether
a person was placed into premises of temporary detention at all; when an extract was
printed out, it lacked more than a half of the
data on the time of release of persons from
the police station/headquarters and those
data did not coincide with the data in the
Electronic Register; in the Register, there are
no possibilities to receive information on the
performance of a certain specific action (for
instance, taking a detainee out of a cell), the
format of a log is not appropriate and the log
does not record data on a person’s refusal, for
example, to go for a walk outside.
Following inspections in five police stations/
headquarters, 20 recommendations were provided to the Police Commissioner General of the
Republic of Lithuania. The majority of them (12)
were implemented or partially implemented. In
addition, all territorial police stations and their
divisions were familiarized with a report on inspections by drawing their attention to shortcomings identified in the report and instructing them
to take measures to ensure that the indicated
shortcomings were avoided when organizing the
work in police custody facilities and premises of
temporary detention.
Taking into account the provided recommendations, A plan of measures for improvement of conditions of detainees in police custody facilities and
premises of temporary detention was approved
whereby the following was provided for: to close
down custody facilities of Varėna Police Station (by
1 April 2016); to review the timeframe of keeping
detainees in premises of temporary detention; to
renew soft inventory used in police custody facilities as well as sheets and towels; to assess possibilities of reconstruction of premises of sanitary units,
calculate the required funding and provide for
that funding according to financial possibilities; in
6. Regarding the persons’ (including citizens of
foreign countries) right to receive information –
Detainees are only formally familiarized with
24
Select target paragraph3
Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents