Assessment of the recommendation’s implementation: There is no obligation in Poland to carry out routine medical examinations of newly detained persons, which is a systemic problem105. As a consequence, not all persons detained and held in the units visited by the NMPT had undergone such examinations, which related also to people against whom a taser had been used106. In one of the visited units, the representatives of the NMPT found that the officers had used a taser three times during an action outside the police station, and only one of the detainees against whom a taser had been used had undergone a medical examination (in the other cases, the detainees refused to undergo a medical consultation)107. According to the CPT standards, such an examination should be mandatory in every case a taser has been used108. The CPT is of the opinion that every person against whom a taser has been used should be seen by a doctor and, if necessary, taken to a hospital. Physicians and emergency services should be informed about possible effects of the use of tasers against people and about the forms of treatment required, in terms of both physical and mental health. Also, the person concerned (and /or their lawyer, upon request) should be provided with a medical certificate109. Any injuries suffered by the detainees had been recorded in the detention reports and police officers' notes attached to the documentation on the detention. The injury descriptions were rather general and apart from specifying injuries as such, some of them contained the detainees’ statements the injuries’ circumstances. The injuries found at RDPs were registered in the duty log books. The injuries were not, however, registered on a special form (so-called “body chart”), and no photographic documentation was made. No register of detainees’ injuries was kept by the visited RDPs (such a register is not required by law). If a given detainee had undergone a medical examination, the doctor's certificate confirming that the detainee can stay at the RDP was attached. 105 Regulation of the Minister of the Interior of 13 September 2012 on medical examinations of persons detained by the police (Journal of Laws [Dz. U.] of 2012, item 1102), Article 1(3). 106 Pursuant to Article 36.1 of the Act of 24 May 2013 of the Act on coercive measures and firearms, a medical examination is conducted in the case of an injury to a person with regard to whom direct coercion measures have been used, or who shows other visible signs of risk to his/her life or health. 107 RDP at the District Police Station Warsaw VI, KMP. 570.1.2020.AN. 108 20th General Report of the CPT, CPT/Inf (2010) 28, para. 81. 109 Ibid. 53