CAT/OP/ROU/1/Add.1 d)creating a system to ensure timely information of decision-making factors in order to remove the potential danger; e)the operative verification of all notifications of detainees, of their family members and of third parties with regard to acts of violence on them, in order to take the legal measures; f) developing adequate educational, psychological assistance and social assistance programmes and activities. If the indicate measures are not sufficient the transfer to another penitentiary or hospital-penitentiaries may be ordered. Para. 54 let. e) - Prohibition of all forms of violence against children As duly noted in the Report, the SPT did not find any evidence of ill-treatment in the Police’s Centres for Detention and Preventive Arrest and the only complaint formally lodged did not stem from a child. Therefore, the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police holds that children’s rights are held in high regard in its detention facilities and reaffirms its commitment to continue in this positive light in the long run. According to the law, it is forbidden for the educational centre or detention centre staff (subordinated to the National Administration of Penitentiaries) to use immobilization means when dealing with the confined person, with certain exceptions provided by the law. The minors in educational centres are a special category of inmates, whose personality is in the most important stage of the growing process, so all the activities carried out with this category of confined persons are centred on educational activities, schooling and psycho-social assistance, with emphases on positively influencing the behaviour and stimulating the strengthening of constructive relations with the support environment. Therefore, taking into account the high vulnerability of the confined minors, intervention units (operational groups/teams) are not established in the educational centres. In order to solve violent or aggressive incidents involving confined minors, the staff of these detention spaces uses mainly communication and negotiation techniques. The staff working with minors and young inmates must benefit of proper training so that they should be able to carry out their professional responsibilities efficiently, especially in order to get to know teenagers’ psychological particularities, communication with young inmates, as well to know the international standards and norms on Human Rights. In 2016, within the project called “Strengthening the capacity of Bacău Prison for minors and young inmates to observe the relevant instruments concerning human rights”, developed through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2009-2014, a team composed by specialists of the National Administration of Penitentiaries and the prisons having under custody minors and young inmates, elaborated a training course addressed to the staff working with this category of inmates, as it is a complex activity of high difficulty, which requires specific and innovative training and approach by the prison staff. Thus, in order to emphasize the educational approach and the rehabilitation of the minors and young inmates in conflict with the law, a number of training sessions were developed, as follows: 5 training sessions targeting the staff who works directly with these categories, for 60 civil servants with special status (detention security and prison regime, social reintegration and medical sectors) and 2 training sessions for the staff who use the tool for assessing the re-offending risk of the minors and young persons deprived of their liberty. Para. 54 let. f) - Constant improvement of detention facilities On this subject, we would like to specify that there are several Police’s Centres for Detention and Preventive Arrest which are currently being modernised in 19

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