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ANNUAL REPORT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF ACTIVITIES OF THE NPM
N PM
Division for Lawfulness of Police Conduct of the Ministry of the Interior. In addition,
investigation judges regularly ask persons deprived of their liberty whether they have any
complaints regarding the treatment of police officers, and their answers are entered in the
minutes. According to the received data, so far there have not been any such complaints.
The register of arrested and detained persons is kept in an orderly manner. An insight was
made into the personal files of randomly chosen detainees and it was established that not
all the obligatory forms had been duly filled in. Although there was a possibility that
because of an insufficient number of police officers, there had not been enough time to fill
in all the forms prescribed in the Ordinance, the NPM pointed to these irregularities and to
the necessity for the proper filling in of forms.
During the examination of II PS Osijek, it was established that natural light reached the
rooms through very small openings filled with opaque glass blocks and artificial light was
on throughout the night for the sake of video surveillance (electric light also existed in the
hall). There were call bell systems in the rooms to be used for calling police officers. The
rooms could be heated but there was neither a toilet, nor drinking water, so that detainees
had to call police officers because the mentioned facilities were only available in the hall. In
PS Osijek II, there was no shower or warm water, so that arrested and detained persons are
not able to maintain personal hygiene before going to the investigation judge. There was
also no separate room where detainees could confer with their defence lawyers.
Examination of the Detention and Escort Unit at the Zagreb Police Administration (PU
zagrebacka)
At the Zagreb Police Administration, detention facilities are located within the Detention
and Escort Unit (a police detention unit is not a separate structure, or part of a structure).
These facilities at the Zagreb Police Administration meet all medical, hygienic and climatic
standards and they each have six bunks. There are no chairs and no shelves for the personal
items of arrested and detained persons in these rooms. The part of the room used as a
sanitary facility is screened from view during video recording.
During their stay in the detention unit in Zagreb, arrested persons and detainees do not
have any opportunity of being in the fresh air because the Police Custody and Escort Unit do
not have any open space where they can walk.
Conversations with defence lawyers in the Detention and Escort Unit take place in rooms
meant to accommodate those kept in custody, arrested or detained because there is no
special room for conferring with defence lawyers as it is prescribed in the Ordinance on the
Admission and Treatment of Arrested and Detained Persons and the Register of Detainees
in Detention Units. According to the superintendent, apart from arrested
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