A/HRC/16/52/Add.3 confirmed the extremely bad reputation of this police station. The Special Rapporteur strongly urges the Government to take disciplinary measures against Superintendent Hewitt Delroy for having obstructed and aggressively threatened the Special Rapporteur and his team. 66. Ricardo Livingston Palmer, aged 25, had been threatened to death by the police. He started crying and begged the Special Rapporteur to help him. He was so scared that he was shaking. There had been trouble with the police in his community for some days, since the police had reportedly killed a man a few days before. The people had created a road block to prevent police from entering the day after, but they came and started shooting. He was part of the crowd. The day of the arrest, he saw the police at noon and ran to another community. He entered a random house to hide. Police circled the house and the woman at the house went out screaming and fearing for her life, leaving him alone inside. The police went in and took him out while he begged not to be killed. They put him in a van together with ten officers. He was beaten on the face and on the mouth. He was then taken to Hunt’s Bay, where he had not been beaten, but questioned about his origin and possession of a gun. The station record included Mr. Palmer’s allegation that police officers had beaten him on both of his eyes and mouth. An additional comment indicated that there were no visible signs of assault anywhere in his body. 67. As the police officers maintained that Mr. Palmer was not in police custody, the Special Rapporteur demanded that he be released. After discussing for a long time, he was finally allowed to leave with his family, who had gone to the station to pick him up. Fort Augusta Adult and Juvenile Correctional Centre Visited on 16 February 2010 General information 68. The Special Rapporteur was received by Superintendent Reuben Kelly and Superintendent Dorothy Hawkin. At the time of the visit, 188 female inmates, including 40 girls, were detained. One baby was at the facility with the detained mother. 69. There were ten dormitories, including three for children in between the adult dorms. During the day, girls and women were together. Some of the girls were sent to Fort Augusta for “safe custody” because of unruly behaviour in other homes. Remandees were usually separated from those convicted, unless there was overcrowding. During the day Fort Augusta was operated as an open facility, and both the girls and the women attended classes or workshops (leather craft, hairdressing, computer classes, etc.). Women with mental disabilities and aggressive behaviour were isolated from other inmates. Isolation for a maximum of 30 days and no visits were used as means of punishment. However, there was no register for the punishment cells, and information was only recorded in the dorm books. 70. In general, the Special Rapporteur had a fairly good impression of the facility. However, he was concerned about the fact that girls were detained together with adult women, in contravention of international standards. Individual cases 71. Y. H, 14. She had been detained at Fort Augusta for a year, and had been previously held in two different places of safety. She had been transferred to Fort Augusta because she had injured a house mother at Windsor. She had been sentenced to three years detention. She indicated that she had been beaten in early December 2009. The officers wanted to put her in a separate dorm, and when she refused and held on to the bed, she was beaten three 34

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