CAT/OP/ROU/1/Add.1 With regard to the proposed assessment of the ratio of security staff to detainees, Ministry of Internal Affairs would like to emphasise that in the case of the Police’s detention facilities, this endeavour is almost impossible to properly tackle. As opposed to detention facilities managed by the National Administration of Penitentiaries, in the Police’s Centres for Detention and Preventive Arrest (CDPA), the number of detainees greatly fluctuates a lot. As a consequence, it is considerably more difficult to estimate reliable long-term needs. Nevertheless, acknowledging these limitations, steps were made for analysing ways of modifying the current organization of CDPA’s and for implementation of new operational plans capable to provide Information about the evolution of the numbers of detainees. Complementary to these measures, the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police (GIRP) concentrates on training and specialization for its security staff. Currently, all CDPA managers have risk management capabilities and risk management training is currently projected for all other security staff. Furthermore, there are training openings in the field of torture prevention and nondiscrimination with a particular focus on detention facility personnel. Two stages of stress and risk management training during the course of the current year are under approval. Given that the initial training of police officers incorporates general principles of the system of protection of human rights in Romania (both internal and international instruments are covered), the system of continuous training in this field is generally organised with an emphasis on particular issues. Police officers participated in training sessions as follows: Training for prevention and investigation of all forms of discrimination, torture and ill-treatment (a total of 757 police officers during the last 7 years), Applied management of the activities carried out in CDPAs (16 police officers), Prevention and investigation of gender violence (36 police officers in 2016-2017). In the same field of training the GIRP has developed a common programme in partnership with the Ministry of Justice which worked on two general issues – training of police officers working in CDPAs and properly equipping the CDPA spaces. Following this programme, a total of 832 police officers were trained between 2014-2016, with a supplementation of 100 more between 2016 and 2017. At the level of penitentiary system The employment of the prison system vacancies in 2016 consisted in vacancy announcement of 2,408 posts, of which 1,260 occupied positions, while for 735 positions the employment procedure is ongoing. In the year 2017, the process has been continued by vacancy announcement of 332 positions in all the prison system. Relevant information concerning the 7 units visited, for the year 2016: - Prison of Aiud: vacancy announcement of 74 positions, 39 occupied positions, 31 positions - ongoing procedure; Prison for women Ploiesti-Târgşorul Nou: vacancy announcement of 43 positions, 30 occupied positions, 5 positions - ongoing procedure; Botoşani Prison: vacancy announcement of 95 positions, 52 occupied positions, 35 ongoing procedure; Giurgiu Prison: vacancy announcement of 77 positions, 51 occupied positions, 12 positions - ongoing procedure; Iasi Penitentiary: vacancy announcement of 98 positions, 70 occupied positions, 8 positions - ongoing procedure; Gherla Prison: vacancy announcement of 56 positions, 23 occupied positions, 32 positions - ongoing procedure; Poarta Albă Prison: vacancy announcement of 135 positions, 75 occupied positions, 39 positions - ongoing procedure. 9