40 MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE: the notification of which occurred 6 hours and 15 minutes after the moment of actual detention. Moreover, the minors’ parents and the care and guardianship authorities were not informed about detention of these children, in violation of Art. 213 of the CCP of Ukraine. On the basis of the results of monitoring of the operation of MIA authorities and units during January 2014 the Ombudsman sent a submission to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine drawing his attention to systemic violations of human rights and freedoms by law enforcement officials. over 11 hours, and detainees H., S. and M. – for more than 6 hours); • disproportional use of force by the police during arrests and use of force against already arrested persons who do not resist the police; • failure to give timely medical assistance to detainees with signs of injuries (on January 24 during the visit to Kyiv Emergency Hospital it was found that K. had been arrested at 1.00 AM on January 20 near “Arsenalna” metro station and taken to the hospital only at 14.20 PM of the same day, diagnosed with “brain concussion, multiple contusions and closed fracture of nasal bones”; S., arrested at 4.00 AM on January 23, had been brought to the hospital at 10.45 with the diagnosis of “concussion, head contusion, bruises of soft tissues of the head, body and both upper limbs, fracture of the second carpal bone”. The Ombudsman also addressed a letter to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine where she outlined the systematic violations of human rights and freedoms in the operation of MIA bodies and requested Prosecutors Office personal control over the course of investigation into each fact of such violations. The systematic violations of human rights revealed during this period may, in the view of the Ombudsman and in accordance with the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, be regarded as amounting to: 2. Violation of the detainees’ right to defense: • failure to notify centers providing free secondary legal aid (monitoring of Desnyansky District Department of the MIA Main Department in Kyiv on January 20, 2014 revealed, at 11.45, the fact of failure to notify the FLA center about detention of citizens D., M. , C. and K, who had been held in detention since 6.30 AM); • improper notification of centers providing free secondary legal aid (on January 23, 2014 during the monitoring visit to Svyatoshynsky District Department of MIA Main Department in Kyiv it was established that the FLA center was notified about the fact of detention of citizen K. 9 hours and 5 minutes after his delivery 1. Torture or inhuman or degrading treatment: • extra long holding (for several hours) of individuals in vehicles specially equipped for transportation of prisoners at below-zero outside temperature, without water and with no possibility to satisfy the natural needs (on January 23, 2014 in the course of monitoring visit to Obolonsky District MIA Main Department of the City of Kyiv it was found that as of the moment of arrest and until delivery to the pre-trial investigation authority detainees A. and P. were held in a special vehicle for