42 MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE: for medics. After arrest even persons with major injuries were placed into special vehicles where they were held without necessary help for a long time. Ambulances were called only after delivery of the detained to district police stations. For example, in the course of the monitoring visit to Desnyansky District Department of Kyiv police (at which NPM staff arrived on February 19 just after midnight) it was found that detainee T. had spent about 10 hours in a police vehicle with fractures of the left arm and right leg. 10 detainees out of those brought to mentioned police station were later hospitalized with injuries of varying damage. Inappropriate conditions of detention The typical violations characteristic of all MIA custodial settings, related to conditions of detention and possibly Temporary holding facility of Ternopil City Police amounting to cruel or treatment are as follows: • degrading the useful area per person held in the cells of special facilities, premises for apprehended and detained persons (PADs) at duty units and dormitories of the reception and distribution centers for minors fail to comply with the domestic and international standards. Moreover, detainees are occasionally held in cells where the distance between walls is less than 2 meters and the distance between the floor and the ceiling is less than 2.5 meters, which does not conform with the established international standards for police cells of, respectively, at least 2 and 2.5 meters, as per CPT’s Second General Report [СРТ/ ІNo.f(92)3]; Temporary holding facility of Kremenchuk City Police, Poltava Region