CAT/OP/ROU/1/Add.1 the necessary cash funds to pay the personal contribution, in which case the costs shall be borne from the unit's budget. The provisions of Article 72 (5) of the Law shall apply accordingly”. By Decision no. 566/2011 of the general director of the National Administration of Penitentiaries, it has been approved The Handbook concerning the associated structures for special security measures, constraint and control, as for using the immobilization means and techniques, which represents the general legal framework by which the specialized, trained and equipped staff acts, by reactive and planned intervention, in order to solve the incidents which could imply using force. Also, the handbook regulates the way in which the specialized intervention structures are constituted, organised, trained, equipped and are functionning. We mention that these intervention structures have been organised and constituted as a guarantee of a professional intervention in solving the incidents, preventing and eliminating the possible abuses. Also, their use in case of interventions is exclusively made for solving and discouraging the illegal, unauthorised and perturbing situations which could affect life, health and corporal integrity of the inmates, staff or other persons and which could represent a danger for the missions or the normal course of the activities in prisons. For guaranteeing legal, efficient and safe interventions, the intervention teams act on the basis of the following fundamental principles: defending the human beings, legality, security, force proportionality, graduality, non-surprise and minimum risk principle. All these rules aim to ensure the observance of all norms and recommendations established by the international bodies in the domain of protection and defense of the rights of persons deprived of their liberty. Depending on the events occurred in the Romanian prison system, National Administration of Penitentiaries will reiterate to the staff the fact that torture or other way of punishment or degrading of inhuman treatment are absolutely forbidden and can’t be tolerated under any circumstance, otherwise being taken measures accordingly. On the basis of the elements mentioned in the report in paragraph 50, we would like to point out that at the level of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism Offences, it was not possible to identify the reported case. Moreover, we specify that the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism Offences does not includee Special Forces. Upon request of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism Offences (DIICOT), the Ministry of Internal Affairs can provide DIICOT with police forces on various operative actions. The Romanian police periodically disseminates to all members of the law enforcement forces (of all grades and of all services) a tough message of "zero tolerance" about ill-treatment. It is reminded to all law enforcement officers that they should not apply force unless strictly necessary. Para. 51-53 Concerning the refferals to the criminal investigations bodies we inform you that during the year before the visit in the units subordinated to the National Administration of Penitentiaries the management of the 7 visited prisons formulated 22 reports concerning possible aggressions made by the staff members over the inmates. From the information available at the level of the prison units, it results that one case has been closed in the investigation phase, by classifying the criminal case file and the other refferals are pending. 14

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