PEOPLE DEPRIVED OF THEIR LIBERT Y BELONGING TO AN AT-RISK GROUP IN C ASES OF INFEC TION this reason, the National Board of Institutional Care placing these people in special departments seems to be the only reasonable measure to take.” 4 Flen detention centre is also applied at other detention centres.” The Swedish Migration Agency At the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s concluding dialogue meeting with the management of the Swedish Migration Agency, the management stated that it is the task of the public health service to The detention centre identify detainees who should have a routine might belong to an atfor identifying detainees risk group. There is no who belong to an at-risk prior information if a new arrival belongs to group an at-risk group. When a detainee arrives at a detention centre, they are asked about their state of health. During the inspections of the detention centres, it was noted that the detention centre in Flen had a clear routine for identifying and treating detainees belonging to an at-risk group. At the detention centre in Märsta, staff did not know if there were any special routines for the placement or treatment of at-risk groups. Parliamentary Ombudsman Per Lennerbrant stated that the Swedish Migration Agency did not have an agency-wide routine for the treatment of detainees who belong to an at-risk group for Covid-19. For this reason, he stated the following:7 The National Board of Forensic Medicine In the dialogue meetings with the management of the National Board of Forensic Medicine, it stated that the agency has a good knowledge of patients’ medical conditions even before they are admitted. Their conditions are also checked during the daily rounds which are carried out Monday to Friday. At the time of the inspections, however, the National Board of Forensic Medicine had not taken any special measures to protect patients who belong to an at-risk group in the event of Covid-19 infection. After the final dialogue meeting with Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman Elisabeth Rynning, the National Board of Forensic Medicine stated that it had adopted a routine for how patients belonging to an at-risk group should be treated. The Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman stated in her decision that it was positive that the agency now has a documented routine for how its staff should act in these situations. “In order to ensure the safety and security of detainees during their stay in a detention centre, in my opinion it is a reasonable requirement that the Swedish Migration Board takes measures to ensure that a routine corresponding to that applied at the 7 See the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s decision of 9 October 2020, ref. no. O 18-2020. – 29 –