A/HRC/16/52/Add.3 detainees when they were shouting for them. A fat police officer had slapped him in the face once when he was shouting to be taken to the toilet. In addition, the officer raised his baton and threatened to beat him. He did not eat meat but the officers kept bringing him meat. They told him that he had to eat the food before he could receive visits. Food was provided three times per day. At 4 a.m. each day the detainees had to get up to take a shower. In general, he felt that the officers in Central Police Station did not treat the detainees correctly. He had to share a cell with a mentally unstable elderly man for about three weeks. He had shared a cell with two adult males in Central Police Station. His family had not been informed that he had been transferred from Port Royal to Central Police Station. His next court hearing was scheduled for 3 March; his parents and lawyer usually went with him to court. During the interview, he pointed out a rat that was running along the corridor. 62. Steve Moran, aged 39, had been arrested on 3 November 2009 in the street in Crossroads by three police officers, who handcuffed him and took him to Crossroads Police Station, where he spent two hours. Later he was transferred to Central Police Station, where he had spent the last four months. A female police officer had questioned him and he had talked to a lawyer. He was badly treated in Central Police Station. The food and the tea provided were of very poor quality. He could receive visits two times per week. His family took food for him, but this was often restricted by the police. He was locked down all day and had to shout if he needed to use the bathroom. The officers only went to the cells when they were in the right mood, even if a detainee was sick. The night before the visit, one detainee fell sick but the officers let him wait for 30 minutes. He was lying on the floor and crying of pain. Sometimes the detainees had to beg the officers for three to four days in order to be taken to a doctor. Five months before, a former cellmate had been beaten on the eye by the officers. Poor people were not respected by the officers. He was allowed out of the cell for five minutes at 5 a.m. in the morning in order to have a shower and to get breakfast. The detainees were then locked in again until the evening, when they had got their dinner. The cells were infested with flees and rats and the whole place smelled very bad because the detainees were forced to urinate in plastic bottles. There was a special separation cell on each floor where detainees could be locked in for one or two days when they got in a fight. Hunt’s Bay Police Station Visited on 15 February 2010 General information 63. The Special Rapporteur was received by Superintendent Hewitt Delroy, Inspector Aaron Fletcher, Officer Carl Malcolm (Deputy Superintendant in charge of crime), Custody Officer Dalton Leslie and Inspector Joeff Scott (Ms). 64. The lock-ups had been closed in early December for renovation. According to Inspector Fletcher, reconstruction was needed because the detainees needed better treatment. He added that no interrogations took place at Hunt’s Bay, and once the detainees’ identity was verified, they were taken to other police stations. 65. Most of the officers, above all Superintendent Hewitt Delroy, were very obstructive, uncooperative, aggressive, and openly threatened the Special Rapporteur’s team during the visit. Although the lock-up was not operative, the Special Rapporteur encountered a man in the “Interview Room” who was apparently very scared. According to the officers, he had been detained and taken to the police station by a mobile police brigade, but there were no record about who had taken him and who had received him. Since the lock-up was out of operation, there was no custody register book. The Special Rapporteur’s overall impression 33

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