• To set out standards for drawing up psychological documentation (based on a uniform template) and for documenting informed consent to a psychological examination, the issuance of a psychological opinion, and the transfer of such an opinion to third parties the documentation did not meet the NMPT standards in this regard. The psychologist kept the documentation in the form adopted at her discretion. Information about the foreign national’s intention to meet with a psychologist or about a refusal of such a meeting was contained only in the person’s medical records; • To notify the foreign migrant about the psychologist’s obligation to maintain professional secrecy and the exceptions to this obligation under the ethical and professional code of conduct for psychologists and the Act on the profession of psychologist, and to record such notification - the psychologist did not provide such information to the foreign migrants; • To ensure that the detainees have access to the exercise yard in accordance with the daily schedule - see the report’s point on CPT recommendations not implemented. • EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION IN THE GUARDED CENTRES FOR FOREIGNERS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC The Commissioner for Human Rights monitored the epidemiological situation in the guarded centres for foreigners. To this end the CHR: • requested information from the Commander-in-Chief of the Border Guard on the state of the centres’ preparedness for the threat related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus394 as well as the planned and carried out deportations395; • wrote to the Head of the Office for Foreigners, inquiring, inter alia, about cases of infections in foreign migrants who were held in the guarded centres and were in quarantine396; • requested the Director of the Social Welfare Department of the Office for Foreigners to provide information on the quantities of computer equipment available at the guarded centres to foreign migrants for the purposes of remote learning397; • called on non-governmental organisations working in the field of human rights protection and assistance to foreign migrants to provide all available information on the situation in the guarded centres for foreigners with regard to the coronavirus pandemic. 394 See: letter of 12 March 2020, KMP.071.4.2020.PK. 395 See: letter of 2 April 2020, KMP.071.4.2020.MZ. 396 See: letter of 17 March 2020, XI.543.17.2020.MS. 397 See: letter of 2 April 2020, XI.543.17.2020.MS. 145

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