PP N PM ANNUAL REPORT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF ACTIVITIES OF THE NPM the accommodation conditions in detention and custody units. The visit took place on working days, in the morning or early afternoon. Pursuant to the Criminal Procedure Act detention may last no longer than 48 hours after arrest, and the investigation judge may extend this for an additional 36 hours. Custody is imposed in accordance with the Misdemeanour Act and in practice it mostly lasts for several hours or only overnight. Since technical and sanitary standards regarding the equipment of police detention units are practically provided for in only a single article of the Ordinance on the Admission and Treatment of Arrested Persons and Detainees and in the Register of Detainees in Detention Units, the purpose of the visit was to establish whether custody units correspond to international standards. Visit to police detention and custody units in Osijek It was established during the visit that in the Osijek and Baranja police administration, there were no facilities exclusively designated for the accommodation of arrested and detained persons and that they were all placed in custody units. Detention mostly takes place in the facilities of the police administration but detainees may also be placed in the facilities of the II Police Station Osijek (hereinafter referred to as II PS Osijek) and seldom in other facilities within the area of this particular police administration. Because of the lack of police officers and the existing conditions, many organisational problems arise in practice, particularly when escorting detainees. All examined facilities were extremely tidy. There were no chairs or shelves in any of them for the inmates’ personal items. In order to protect the privacy of the persons deprived of their liberty, the sanitary part of the facility was in all cases protected from photographing. Most examined custody units for those arrested and detained in the Osijek and Baranja police administration are placed in the basement which results in climatic problems despite the existing ventilation. As a rule, there is a single mattress on a wooden base in each room with clean linen on it. The rooms have video surveillance, but no audio connection. The rooms in the basement have no windows and thus also no daylight but only artificial light. Most of the rooms have a sanitary facility and drinking water, and only two of them do not, so that the persons temporarily detained there, if they must use the toilet or drink water, must call a police officer. They have a separate room with a shower. However, there is no adequate heating in these facilities. In the day time, the arrested persons and detainees have the possibility of going out in the yard, escorted by two policemen. When arrested, a person is informed about the possibility of lodging a complaint to the 18