34 MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE: The girls told their interviewers that prior to placement into the center they had not undergone any medical examination. At night they were kept in solitary rooms under the supervision of a male police officer. For lack of toilets and drinking water in the rooms they had to make relevant requests to the officer on duty. Medical examination during preparation of materials for transfer to a social rehabilitation school revealed pediculosis, but girls did not receive any remedy or treatment. Due to intervention of the monitoring group girls were moved to a clean and airy sleeping room, given needed assistance at a health care institution and provided with a female custodial officer. During the visit to the temporary holding facility of the City of Vinnitsa Police Unit (MIA Department in Vinnitsa Region) and interviews with its detainees citizen T., apprehended under Art. 208 of the CCP of Ukraine, said that on October 4, 2013 at 00.20 AM he had been arrested by the police on suspicion of having committed a criminal offense specified in part 4 of Art. 296 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and brought to the 1st division of Vinnitsa city police, where for six hours he was held handcuffed to a bench in the ground floor hallway and thus had no chance to move or satisfy his natural needs. N.’s detention was procedurally registered only at 7.40 AM on October 4, 2013, which violated Articles 207 - 210 of the CCP, Art. 27 of the Law of Ukraine “On Free Legal Aid” and the Provisions on notification of centers of secondary free legal aid (approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on December 28, 2011, under No. 1363) with regard to the right to defense. In accordance with the requirements of Articles 13, 17, 19-1 and 22 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights” the Representative of the Ombudsman sent an official notice to the Prosecutor’s Office of Vinnitsa Region and sought its comprehensive and unbiased examination of these facts, legal assessment of the actions of the police and appropriate response in the manner and mode envisaged in the legislation of Ukraine. Relevant verification and entry of data into the Unified Register of pretrial investigations were assigned by the regional Prosecutor’s Office to the prosecutor of the City of Vinnitsa. After one month of expectation of the reply the Ombudsman’s Representative on June 4, 2013 sent a reminder to the prosecutor’s office of Vinnitsa Region as to the necessity to inform the Ombudsman on the results of the review and to provide copies of all relevant materials. On June 10, 2013 the Secretariat of the Ombudsman received a response, with copies of the relevant materials, with a statement that illegal detention of citizen T. at the 1st division of City of Vinnitsa Police Unit (Vinnitsa Region MIA Department) and violence against him were not corroborated. In the opinion of the Commissioner for Human Rights, the content of Vinnitsa prosecutor’s reply is in contravention of the circumstances as specified in the materials of the review with regard to holding of citizen T. in an unsuitable area and with the use of handcuffs in excess of the allowed time (not more than 2 hours). At the same time information from the Ombudsman on the committed criminal offense was not entered into the Register of pre-trial investigations, which constitutes a violation of Art. 214 of the CCP of Ukraine,