ill-treatment are investigated promptly and thoroughly. The delegation examined one particular case where the police authorities had not responded to repeated requests by the Podgorica District Prosecutor for the names of members of a specifc shift of special police ofcers who had allegedly been involved in beating a person in a police detention facility in Podgorica in 2008. 72. As regards prisons, some allegations of ill-treatment of inmates by staf were described in the report, consisting mainly of kicks, slaps or blows with truncheons to various parts of the body. A few inmates alleged that staf ill-treated them for no apparent reason other than the nature of their criminal ofence. Episodes of interprisoner violence and intimidation were also not infrequent at the Institution for Sentenced Persons in Podgorica where several inmates alleged that they were victims of racketeering and threats of use of violence by a specifc group of prisoners. The CPT recommends that a frm message be delivered to prison ofcers about the illegality and unacceptability of physical ill-treatment and that more eforts be invested in tackling and eradicating inter-prisoner violence and intimidation. The stafng levels at the Health-Care Centre of the Spuž Prison Complex, which is responsible for the health-care needs of the prison population at the national level, were insufcient. Recommendations are put forward to reinforce stafng levels and the authorities are requested to provide information on the status of the project of building a special prison hospital. Recommendations are also made to improve the respect of medical confdentiality, access to specialist care and the need for the Health-Care Centre to be provided with modern and functional medical equipment. In their response, the Montenegrin authorities provide information on the recruitment of additional health-care staf at the Spuž Prison Complex. They also agree with the Committee that the construction of a special prison hospital would improve the health-care protection of inmates and state that funding is being sought from EU pre-accession instruments for the construction of a special prison hospital in Podgorica. 73. The treatment provided to forensic psychiatric patients was a source of particular concern for the Committee. In particular, it found that the Forensic Psychiatric Unit of the Dobrota Special Psychiatric Hospital often refused to admit forensic patients with the most disturbed behaviour in the absence of the necessary security conditions. As a result, several forensic patients continued to be held in prison. For example, the report describes the case of a prisoner sentenced to a mandatory psychiatric treatment measure who had been met by the CPT in 2008 and, notwithstanding the recommendation made by the CPT at that time, was still being held in conditions of solitary confnement at the Remand Prison in Podgorica in 2013. In response to the Committee’s immediate request, the Montenegrin authorities confrm in their response that the prisoner in question had been transferred to a forensic psychiatric facility in Serbia. The report notes positively that no allegations of ill-treatment of residents by staf were received at the Komanski Most Institution for People with Special Needs. The CPT welcomes in particular that the institution had undergone a complete refurbishment programme since the 2008 visit and now ofered its residents living conditions of a satisfactory standard. All residents’ rooms had adequate lighting, heating and ventilation and Publication highlights ► Page 37