8.8. Psychiatric hospitals ¾ It is necessary to aim at improving the way of treatment of patients by the staff of the establishment. Respect for the patients' identity and for their dignity should be strictly enforced. Any unjustified restrictions on the patients' rights and freedoms, such as: limiting visits to toilets or placing patients in glazed "cages" should be prohibited. ¾ In the Mechanism's opinion, special attention should be paid to the issue of using direct coercion so that its application did not threaten the patient's safety and was actually justified each time. ¾ The National Preventive Mechanism's recommendations regarded also ensuring the adequate living conditions to the hospital patients by: eliminating cases of placing patients in the corridors, guaranteeing the adequate conditions in sanitary facilities. ¾ The National Preventive Mechanism stated that the patients with respect to whom a security mean in case of basic protection is applied, should be granted passes on the same principles as the patients staying in the establishment under the mental health protection act. ¾ The Mechanism's reservations were also raised by the fact that some hospitals lacked the occupational therapy. The NPM representatives stressed that it was necessary to broaden the offer of therapeutic interactions so that it was not limited to pharmacotherapy only. ¾ An important issue is to organize a system for receiving and dealing with as well as recording written and oral complaints from the patients, which would meet the requirements resulting from the valid legislation. 8.9. Centres for foreigners ¾ In the National Preventive Mechanism's opinion, supervision over the course of a phone conversation conducted by the foreigners and inclusion in the service documentation of the phone numbers called by inmates is an unjustified interference in contacts with the outside world. ¾ A separate issue is the execution by the Border Guard officers, with the excessive frequency, of detailed controls of the rooms. The National Preventive Mechanism regards the use of a police dog for these controls as unclear. Moreover, the fact that the foreigner's country a serious act of aggression takes place (e.g. bomb outrage) may not be a basis for taking actions such as excessive controls involving a dog, with respect to that person. ¾ The National Preventive Mechanism considered it necessary to provide to persons deprived of liberty the conditions guaranteeing respect for privacy in carrying out the hygienic activities. So, it recommended, therefore, that the shower cabins should be separated or covered which would ensure the person washing themselves comfort and a sense of privacy. ¾ The National Preventive Mechanism is disturbed by the practice of putting at the doors of the cells the information about the foreigners placed there. In the opinion of the visiting persons, such way of informing about the identity of the foreigners staying in the Deportation Centre seems unjustified and in addition it