person and the possible need to perform a medical examination. In the course of visits, employees of the National Preventive Mechanism have found no irregularities concerning the exercise of the detained persons’ right of access to a doctor. Persons detained and placed in rooms for detained persons, meeting the requirements of regulations conditioning the performance of a medical examination (visible bodily harm or loss of consciousness; conditions requiring permanent or periodic treatment; request for first aid and necessary medical examination; pregnancy; state after alcohol consumption or insobriety; influence of intoxicating or psychotropic substances; participation in a fight; symptoms of mental disorders) were subject to medical examination where necessary. The examinations were carried out by emergency care doctors, with whom the Police headquarters had concluded agreements. In the vast majority of visited establishments, as a result of unreliable completion of medical visits register by doctors, NPM recommended to instruct doctors about the need to appropriately complete such registers, in a way allowing to establish unambiguously and without aby doubts the date of consultation, personal data of a doctor providing medical services and of their recipient. The abovementioned irregularities were found in 11 out of 15 visited rooms for detained persons (establishments in Bytom, Legionowo, Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Warsaw I, Wrocław, Kutno, Środa Wielkopolska, Gliwice, Koszalin, Legnica, Mogilno). In rooms for detained persons with medical facilities31, a superficial control of medications stored in a first aid kit revealed medications past the expiry date (establishments in Legionowo, Kutno and Koszalin). The reaction of the management of individual establishments to irregularities found by the Mechanism with regard to exercising the detained persons’ right of to medical care must be evaluated positively. The National Preventive Mechanism was assured that officers on duty in rooms for detained persons will instruct doctors about the need for a reliable documenting of medical services provided and will remove expired medications found during the review of first aid kits in medical facilities. c) Right to information about the legal rights  United Nations General Assembly Resolution 43/173 of 9 December 1988 Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment Principle 10 Anyone who is arrested shall be informed at the time of his arrest of the reason for his arrest and shall be promptly informed of any charges against him. Principle 13 Any person shall at the moment of arrest and at the commencement of detention or imprisonment, or promptly thereafter, be provided by the authority responsible for his arrest, detention or imprisonment, respectively, with information on and an explanation of his rights and how to avail himself of such rights. European Code of Police Ethics (Recommendation (2001) 10 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the European Code of Police Ethics adopted by the                                                              31 Establishments in Bytom, Legionowo, Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Warsaw I, Wrocław, Kutno, Środa Wielkopolska, Koszalin, Legnica, Gliwice, Chełm, Jaworzno, Kielce.