and teaching methods, mentioned in the sect. 1, as well as educational methods for a
juvenile should lead to get acquainted with a juvenile and his environment, development of
their interests and cooperation in a team;
§ 5(2)(1)-(4) A juvenile during their stay in the police establishment for children
should be provided with an access to: everyday press, audio-visual equipment, literature,
sports equipment.
According to the National Preventive Mechanism, Police emergency centre
for children should provide to a juvenile proper conditions to allow them
spending relevant part of a day on educational, cultural and sports classes,
including 1 hour of outdoor activities. Passive leisure in bedrooms should be
limited to minimum.
In the visited establishments, such activities take place in day rooms. Some of
them were very well-equipped: in table-tennis table, TV, books, board games (e.g.
puzzle, domino), art materials.
However, very often the NPM founds that there were no additional classes for
juveniles. For example, in the Police Emergency Centre for children in Bielsko-Biała,
the NPM representative got an information that a juvenile did not participate in any
classes, but watched TV for an hour, he did not have any outdoor activities. He
admitted, he would like to read a paper but he did not know that they are available. In
the assessment of the National Preventive Mechanism watching TV by a juvenile does
not constitute educational classes. They demanded to include in files of each juvenile
information concerning their stay in ECC, in particular, notes on important discussions
carried out by a tutor as well as types of educational, cultural and sports activities they
participated in.
In the centre in Rzeszów, as a result of shortage of staff, the majority of classes
was not realised, the cultural classes took place in day rooms, equipped only in: a
bench, a table and TV. They were not decorated e.g posters or wallpapers. For that
reason, the number of juveniles placed there is limited, as there is only few police
officers to work there. In result, there is only one police officer on duty, who is
incapable of realisation of all entitlements of a juvenile due to other duties. In relation
to that, the National Preventive Mechanism recommended to provide juveniles with
other, than a day room, cultural, educational and sports classes, and to increase the
number of staff to two police officers on duty so as to enable realisation of other
activities.
The Police City Commander in Rzeszów informed that until March 2011, the
number of staff will be increased.
i) Staff
The Beijing Rules
Principle 12.1 In order to best fulfil their functions, police officers who frequently or exclusively
deal with juveniles or who are primarily engaged in the prevention of juvenile crime shall be
specially instructed and trained. In large cities, special police units should be established for
that purpose
Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers CM/Rec(2008)11 on the European
Rules for juvenile offenders subject to sanctions or measures.
Principle 19 Sufficient resources and staffing shall be provided to ensure that interventions
in the lives of juveniles are meaningful.
Lack of resources shall never justify the
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