CONCLUSIONS not treated effectively and still pose a threat to themselves and others; the illegal deprivation of liberty of such persons due to social, financial, administrative reasons and lack of alternatives; • The lack of psychological help and psychiatric therapy for detainees with IPD in pre-trial detention facilities and prisons, a main challenge identified under the present research is the low capacity of the staff who deal with the persons with disabilities in the prisons, in the prison hospitals and in other psychiatric institutions; • The lack of mechanism for provision of support by the probation services to convicts with IPD; • The lack of training of police, prosecutors, judges, probation officers for interaction with persons with IPD • The lack of database and referral mechanism of the residential, day-care, therapeutic services for persons with IPD. • The lack of database about cross border cases, difficulties in finding interpreters and expert witnesses in case of defendants who are foreign citizens, lack of clarity how the consent from the person concerned is obtained; • The lack of coordination, data collection and processing between the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Healthcare and the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy regarding persons with IPD who had perpetrated crimes. 64 SLAVKA KUKOVA