60 MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE: registration of persons in the police premises, a return to the use of duty loggers by patrolling officers (which improves records of the apprehended and detained), an update of service registers and other documentation of duty police units and special facilities, harmonization of holding conditions with the accepted standards (dismantling of beds allows increasing the usable area per detainee, electrical lighting is improving, etc.). At the same time it was established that in a number of instances the Ombudsman had been provided with untrue information. For instance, the leadership of MIA and Kyiv City police reported to the Ombudsman that the shortcomings discovered in the operation of Pechersky and Holosiyivsky District police departments of the capital were eliminated, but the repeat visits showed that such information did not fully conform with the reality. As a result, the Ombudsman sent a submission to MIA on the failure to implement the recommendations as to proper respect of human rights and freedoms and on provision of untrue information to the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights. In its letter of February 27, 2013, No. 3175 MIA informed the Commissioner about the measures taken to ensure proper holding conditions for the apprehended and detained persons at Pechersky District units, and provided the copies of the internal investigation materials and of Kyiv City Police Order of February 22, 2013, No. 104, “On disciplinary liability of certain employees of MIA Main Department in the City of Kyiv and of Pechersky District Department”. 2.2. Monitoring of institutions of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine: Results  The structure of the penitentiary system of Ukraine includes: • • • 26 remand prisons and 6 penal institutions that function as remand prisons. They hold persons taken into custody for the time of pre-trial investigation and court hearings, or sentenced to life imprisonment or arrest, as well as convicted prisoners left at the institution for performance of in-house services/ works; 112 penitentiary facilities (colonies) for enforcement of punishments by deprivation of liberty; 7 juvenile correctional/ educational colonies for enforcement of • • • punishments by deprivation of liberty for juveniles; 24 correctional centers for enforcement of punishments by restriction of liberty; 69 arrest houses for serving arrest sentences; 6 treatment facilities. As of January 1, 2014 the 182 institutions belonging to the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine held a total of 126,937 persons. As compared to the previous year the number of inmates in SPSU institutions has decreased by 20,175 people, or by 14%. The number of prisoners at penitentiary institutions