CAT/OP/ROU/1/Add.1
Within the framework of the continuous preparation of the prison system staff
are included topics relating to the prevention of torture and ill-treatment,
discrimination and human rights. Moreover, within the Project "Strengthening the
capacity of the prison system for the human resources development with regard to
prison staff" during 2016 were carried out courses focussed on "Human Rights Ways of preventing discrimination", especially in the case of the Roma ethnic
population (50 participants) and "European Committee for the Prevention of
Torture and Inhuman or Degrating Treatment or Punishment (CPT) Rules” (40
participants).
With regard to the initial training, the curricula specified above have been used
during 2016 for the didactic process for 751 junior officers and agents. For 2017,
it is considered the drafting and posting on the e-learning platform of the topics
related to the identification of signs of ill-treatment to which persons deprived of
their liberty might be subject. These suport documents are intended for several
profesional categories: medical staff, operative staff, social reintegration staff
(psychologists, social workers). A practical aspect related to the specialized
meetings for the categories mentioned, refers to lectures given by the
representatives of the Romanian forensic network.
Para. 54 let. c) - Accountability of special intervention forces
The general principles for use of force in the Romanian Police are stated in Law
no. 218/2002 and Government Decision no. 991/2005 on the Code of ethics and
deontology of police officers which provide the principles recommended by the
SPT (see especially art. 9 of said Code). On the subject of body-worn cameras,
Ministry of Internal Affairs wish to inform the SPT that the subject has been
broached in various forms by our institution and it is generally accepted as being
a project with a net positive impact in law enforcement activities. However, most
difficulties appear when budgetary matters are concerned. Primary rough
estimates put the cost of equipping all uniformed policemen with a body-worn
cameras at about €48,000,000. If considered a more restrained project of
equipping body-worn cameras only on special forces police officers, the estimate
should revolve between €565,000 and €1,400,000. The GIRP wishes to inform the
SPT that a pilot project is undergoing through which police officers working in
public order units will carry a body-worn camera so that citizens' talks are recorded
and stored. The subject remains open and various ways of obtaining the necessary
funding and adjusting the existent legal framework are carefully considered.
We reiterate the fact that, at the level of the prison units, started a process of
endowment of the members of the associated teams for special security measures
with mini body worn camera. The action will continue, for endowing all the
members in the mentioned structures with this kind of devices. See above the
answer provided at para.51-53 from the SPT report.
Regarding the recommendation about the SASS teams intervention only in
emergency situations, we mention the following:
The general elements regarding the way in which are managed the operational
incidents have been included in the training activity for other security staff
(surveillance, accompanying, escorting), for officers in execution positions as well
as for the management board, with the aim to know certain ways of action and to
act professionally, whenever the situation imposes it. The training modules include:
solving incidents by using communication techniques by the staff who works
directly with the inmates, operational incidents management, first aid, human
rights issues, video recording of the way in which an incident is solved etc.
The professional training of the security staff in solving the incidents is a guarantee
that the intervention of SASS teams is the last resort, if any other methods of
managing the incidents didn’t achieve their purpose.
In conclusion, taking into account the SPTrecommendations, we point out that the
associated teams for special security, constraint and control measures (SASS)
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