SECTION 2. to the police station). Moreover, other revealed violations may, in the light of ECtHR case law, also be viewed as violations of safeguards against illtreatment, specifically: • failure to inform detainees about their rights on arrest; • failure to inform relatives, family members or other persons of detainees’ choice about the facts of arrest and places of detention. On February 18 during confrontation between the police and protesters the NPM Department staff video-recorded the developments, including the use of excessive force by the police during dispersal of the demonstration in Instytutska Street. On the same date the Ombudsman’s Secretariat staff monitored the developments in Hrushevskoho, Lypska and Sadova Streets in order to prevent ill-treatment of detainees held in special police vehicles. On the night of February 19, 2014 and during that day the employees of the Secretariat, in order to ensure the respect of the detained protesters’ rights, visited police authorities and units subordinate to MIA Main Department in the City of Kyiv – of Darnytsky, Desnyansky (two visits), Dniprosky (two visits), Obolonsky and Podilsky District and their police stations, as well as Kyiv Emergency Hospital. NPM staff interviewed all detainees held at these institutions and recorded all discovered violations of their rights. During the visit to Dniprovsky District police the NPM staff provided immediate access of two privately hired lawyers to two detainees who at the moment were already receiving assistance from lawyers of a FLA center. 41 On February 19, 2014, during the monitoring visit to Darnytsky District Department of Kyiv police the NPM staff established a number of facts of untimely medical assistance to persons brought to the police station with injuries allegedly inflicted by the law enforcement personnel during arrests. In order to redress their violated human and civil rights a relevant notification was immediately communicated to A. Saynoha, senior prosecutor with the Prosecutor’s Office of Darnytsky District in the City of Kyiv. The visit to Kyiv Emergency Hospital featured interviews with all detained, with recording of the established violations. The collected and consolidated information was referred to Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office for proper response. On February 19, 2014 the employees of NPM Department visited Holosiyivsky and Svyatoshynsky District Departments of the police in order to determine the number of detainees and to ascertain if their rights to secondary legal aid and to medical assistance were respected in a timely manner. Holosiyivsky Department was found to hold 10 persons, of which two had visible injuries; the representatives of the Ombudsman demanded an ambulance call. At the time of the visit the police had not yet notified the FLA center. In this context the NPM staff warned the commanding officer of the police department and notified the FLA center of the names of all detainees. It should be emphasized that failure to render medical assistance to detainees was one of the most frequent violations during the mass protests. In contravention of the requirements of the applicable law the police who arrested the protest participants resorted to physical force and used special means, did not provide, on their own, any assistance to the injured and did not call