A/HRC/16/52/Add.3 them. Only some nice officers allowed the detainees to talk with their visitors through the grills of two locked doors. The air in the cells was always stale and it smelled badly, because the toilet was also inside the cell. Sometimes they were up to 20 detainees in the cell. The whole place was very messy and infested with cockroaches and other insects. He did not see a doctor and could not afford a lawyer. The lawyer appointed by the judge did not come to visit him. He had been beaten a week before the visit of the Special Rapporteur. The officers, and in particular Officers Gilbert and Arthur Brown, often beat detainees with batons. The Special Rapporteur recommends that these allegations be fully investigated by an independent monitoring body. 6. Paulo Mills, (right cell) aged 25, had been detained in Denham Town Police Station for 21 months. In the corridor attached to the small cells, the light was switched on for 24 hours per day. The detainees were locked into the small cells from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. At night, they had to urinate into a bottle, since there was no toilet in their cell. The officers often used pepper spray on the detainees. Horizon Adult and Juvenile Correctional Centre and Remand Centre Visited on 12 February 2010 General Information 7. The Special Rapporteur was received by Superintendent Hector Smith and Director of Security Clifton Rogers. The Remand Centre had a capacity of approximately 1,000 detainees. 605 persons were in custody at the time of the visit, including 40 convicted prisoners, 562 remandees and 3 women, of which two were minors. 8. On 8 February 2009, detainees had started protesting against the lack of water and the conditions in general. According to the Superintendent, 58 detainees were injured in the following unrest, three of whom were still in hospital. 17 guards were reportedly injured, two of them severely. 9. Access to the UN Special Rapporteur was denied. Halfway Tree Police Station, Kingston Visited on 13 February 2010 General information 10. The Special Rapporteur was received by Inspector Winston Brown, Custody Officer and Inspector Lorna Foller-Burchell (Ms). At the time of the visit 81 detainees were held in 18 cells, with a maximum capacity of 90. 11. The police station had been cleaned up recently. The lock-up was comparably better lit and more spacious. However, the cells had no toilets or water inside. Toilets outside the cells lacked flushing water. The authorities indicated that there was a court adjoined to the police station, and that Resident Magistrates ordered the remand of detainees from this court. They furthermore stated that because of the drought in the country, the detainees did not get enough water, especially on the second floor. Individual cases 12. Roger Nandoo, aged 22, had to use bottles in order to urinate as he was often denied access to the toilet. He had been beaten in September 2009 with a hockey stick in the chest and was still under medication for that reason. The beatings stopped ever since 21