8. Recommendations of the National Preventive Mechanism.
As a result of the activities carried out during 80 preventive visits in 2010, the
National Preventive Mechanism has issued recommendations aimed at the proper
implementation of the standards contained in the acts of international and internal law.
Below, there are the most important and most frequently issued recommendations for
the individual establishments:
8.1.
Rooms within the Police organisational units for detained persons or
persons brought to sober up
¾ Striving for improvement of material conditions in which detained persons are kept,
inter alia: appropriate equipping the cells with accommodation equipment,
systematic renovations of the rooms, provision of suitable lighting for reading and
writing, taking care of improvement of ventilation in the rooms. The National
Preventive Mechanism also thinks that the detained person should be ensured
appropriate conditions to take care of his/her personal hygiene and provided with
necessary hygiene measures.
¾ Paying due attention to the quality and method of providing health services, fair
keeping of medical records, providing a first aid kit, disposing of old medicines. In
addition, it is necessary to eliminate cases of providing health services in the
presence of persons other than the required medical staff.
¾ The National Prevention Mechanism takes the view that it is necessary to change
the way of making the detained persons familiar with the content of the rules of
staying in the room for detained persons so that they will be able to get familiar
with this content without haste and a need to perform other activities. The
information received by the National Preventive Mechanism employees from the
detained persons in terms of knowledge of their powers, definitely prove that the
persons placed there only apparently are familiarized with the content of the rules.
8.2.
Prisons and pre-trial detention centres
¾ The National Preventive Mechanism noted that despite limiting the phenomenon of
overcrowding, penitentiary establishments still faced the problem with housing
prisoners. The lack of overcrowding may be found, indeed, only at the statistical
level while the factual state shows that this is done at the expense of many
malpractices. For example, in certain visited establishments, for the needs related to
housing people deprived of liberty, day rooms, infirmaries, isolation cells and
transition cells were used. Furthermore, in the rooms intended for inmates posing a
serious social threat or a serious threat to the safety of the establishment also those
prisoners who have not been included in that group and due to the special rigour
and securities in such sections should not be housed here, were placed. The need to
ensure the inmates a proper living area is also an obstacle to performing larger
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