renovation of bathroom facilities had been completed, whereas further repairs would
be carried out after receiving necessary funds. As regards the Chamber in Jaworzno,
the Voivodeship Police Commander in Katowice informed that on 1 December 2010
the facility in Jaworzno had been closed down due to the opening of a “regional” room
for detained persons or persons brought to sober up within Municipal Police
Headquarters in Katowice29.
The representatives of the National Preventive Mechanism saw radically
different conditions in rooms for detained persons in Wrocław and Gdynia. Conditions
in both Chambers were recognized as model. Recommendations of the National
Preventive Mechanism were only limited to, respectively: painting walls with a
humidity and clarifier-resistant coating during the next renovation and a proper
organisation of a first aid kit along with instructions concerning the provision of first
aid30.
Irregularities observed by the National Preventive Mechanism in the remaining
9 rooms for detained persons within the Police headquarters mostly concerned an
incomplete equipment of those rooms (establishments in Legionowo, Nowy Dwór
Mazowiecki, Warsaw I, Kutno and Środa Wielkopolska). Shortcomings observed in
the abovementioned Chambers indicate the failure to comply with the provisions of the
Ordinance of the Minister of the Interior and Administration of 13 October 2008 on
the rooms in the Police premises for detained persons or persons brought to sober up,
which explicitly specify the equipment of such rooms.
NPM employees also observed the problem of the failure to determine places
where detained persons could use tobacco products (establishments in Nowy Dwór
Mazowiecki, Bytom and Kutno), as well as the lack of substitute clothing for persons
referred to in Article 10(2) of Regulations concerning the stay in rooms for detained
persons or persons brought to sober up (hereinafter referred to as Regulations), as well
as substitute clothing specified in Article 10(3) of the Regulations (establishments in
Kutno and Środa Wielkopolska).As regards the aforementioned recommendations, the
Poviat Police Commander in Kutno and the Poviat Police Commander in Środa
Wielkopolska informed the NPM that they had undertaken actions leading to the
elimination of the irregularities found.
In several other establishments NPM also recommended equipping shower
stands with antislip mats (e.g. establishments in Legionowo, Nowy Dwór
Mazowiecki), removal of toilet bowls from rooms for detained persons or installing
fixed, easily washable and humidity and clarifier-resistant floors (Warsaw I
establishment).To respect the right to intimacy of persons staying in rooms for
detained persons, NPM recommended a relevant reconstruction of sanitary facilities,
leading to at least partial isolation of shower stands (establishment in Nowy Dwór
Mazowiecki), as well as equipping bathrooms with appropriate curtains guaranteeing
intimacy at taking a shower and using a toilet (establishments in Gliwice, Koszalin and
Kielce).
29
Establishment of such a room was possible after the complete reconstruction of a room for detained persons
and adaptation of rooms regained after a liquidated deportation centre within the Municipal Police Headquarters
in Katowice. As a result of this undertaking, current capacity of the room for detained persons within Katowice
amounts to 56 persons at one time.
30
This recommendation, issued by the National Sanitary Inspection of the Ministry of the Interior and
Administration, has been entered into post-visit information by the National Preventive Mechanism since it was
found that it had not been executed.
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