the Executive Penal Code, in practice makes it impossible to be granted, even when
the inmates meet the conditions for its granting.
8.3.
Police emergency centres for children
¾ All possible measures should be taken to make the stay of juveniles in this type of
the establishment as short as possible. Each time, the National Preventive
Mechanism stresses that Police emergency centres for children are not
establishments adapted to the longer stays of the juveniles, at least due to the fact
that the juveniles do not fulfil their schooling obligation there.
¾ Each juvenile deproved of liberty should be provided with permanent access to the
addresses of the institution to which he/she may apply in a situation where his/her
rights are not respected. The addresses of these institutions should be placed in a
place which is publicly available and visible to the juveniles so that access to them
was not conditional upon a decision of the police officers or upon other factors.
¾ Each newly admitted juvenile should be subject to a medical examination if
possible. The provision of medical services should take place in a room adapted to
that purpose and should be appropriately documented. Moreover, in view of the
strong stress accompanying the juvenile immediately after arrest and during the stay
in isolation, it is advisable to provide him/her with proper psychological care.
¾ The rooms for the juveniles should be provided with beds ensuring proper rest at
night. In addition, aesthetics and equipment of all other rooms used by the juveniles
may not be for them a source of further stresses and therefore it is necessary to
ensure conditions to enable performance of day-to-day activities.
¾ The juveniles must obligatorily be provided with clothes appropriate to the time of
the day, underwear and means to maintain personal hygiene.
¾ The juveniles must be provided with the conditions so that they could spend an
appropriate part of the day participating in various educational, cultural and sport
activities, including 1 hour of open-air activities. Passive spending of time in the
closed sleeping rooms should be kept to a minimum.
8.4.
Youth care centres and youth sociotherapy centres
¾ In the opinion of the National Preventive Mechanism representatives, the
employees of this type of establishments should be able to deal with the juveniles in
a proper way in order not to cause acute conflicts and not to copy the wrong
patterns from the environment in which they were raised. All punishments likely to
disturb the juvenile's sense of value and result in the loss of self-esteem should be
prohibited. The Mechanism representatives state that collective punishment and
punishment in a form of hitting or using abusive language towards the juveniles is
an inappropriate treatment and should not happen. In addition, application of a
punishment involving performance of physical exercises physical or extra work is a
wrong interaction. In the opinion of the Mechanism representatives, these
punishments may result in the juveniles with distortion of a proper image of work as
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