activities. The information has to be provided before the first interrogation, in conditions ensuring that the detainee fully understands it and can ask additional questions. Every detainee should be informed that the police station has a list of attorneys and legal advisers from among whom they may independently select one lawyer to seek assistance from. In this regard, the CHR also pointed out that the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure as well as the practice are inconsistent with European Union law, in so far as they do not guarantee immediate contact with a lawyer financed from the state budget. Moreover, in the opinion of the Commissioner there is a need to develop a template of information with contact details of all authorities that consider complaints (including institutions for the protection of human rights and relevant units within the structures of the police, both at the central and regional levels), to provide information to detained persons on attorneys and legal advisers, and in the case of foreign detainees who does not speak Polish fluently, to ensure the presence of an interpreter as a mandatory condition. The presence of an interpreter during all official procedures should be confirmed by his/her signature and stamp in the relevant report. It also seems advisable to designate a room at the place of detention, which is not monitored and where meetings can be held of detained persons and their lawyers, out of sight and hearing of third parties. Police stations should be equipped with sound and image registration equipment to record interrogations. Officers should be trained in the use of such equipment and the equipment already available at some police stations should always be used. It would be helpful to keep a register of persons entering and leaving the station, including the date and time of entry and exit, the name of the officer under whose supervision the detainee is placed and the reasons for entry. It is also necessary to end the practice of routine body search of all detainees. Body search should be used only in exceptional cases justified by the situation, after the individual risk assessment, while in other cases preventive search should be conducted. It is also necessary to introduce a standard practice of medical examinations of all detained persons (including after the use of a taser, regardless of the consequences of its use) and to adopt the principle of conducting the medical examination out of sight and hearing of officers, unless the doctor decides that the presence of a policeman during the examination is necessary. The Commissioner recommends that officers use handcuffs only when justified by the risk assessment in a given case, and that an amendment is made of the order no. 130 of 7 August 2012 of the Police Commander in Chief on the performance of professional duties in rooms for detained persons or persons brought for sobering up, so as to guarantee the presence of more than one officer in such a room. Finally, the Commissioner recommends a review of staff shortages in all organizational units of the police, taking into account the increasing number of inhabitants of municipalities adjacent to urban agglomerations, and the introduction of officers’ regular training in stress management methods, counteracting professional burnout and alcoholism, and the standards of protecting detainees against ill-treatment, as described herein. The Commissioner requested the Police Commander in Chief to present information on the above-mentioned problems which increase the risk of ill-treatment and torture of detained persons in 31