Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Poland in 2017
Detention of juveniles
8 establishments for juveniles
In 2017 the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture conducted inspections of
four youth care centres78 (including one re-inspection79), two police emergency centres for
children80 and two juvenile detention centres and juvenile shelters81 (including one re-inspection82). There were also 5 visits whose objective was to assess the access of minors to health
services in the field of psychiatry and addiction treatment83. After the analysis is concluded,
a thematic report presenting the outcomes of those visits will be drawn up.
Police Emergency Centres for Children
Success of the CHR’s efforts: provisions on
body search considered unconstitutional
Minors who are admitted to Police Emergency Centres for Children are subject to a
body search during which - in justified cases - they are requested to take off their clothes and
underwear. Yet, pursuant to the regulation of the Minister of the Interior of 4 June 2012 on
rooms for detained persons or intoxicated persons to sober up, transitional facilities and police emergency centres for children, as well as rules and regulations on the stay in such facilities and procedures used for image recordings of those facilities (Dz.U. [Journal of Laws] of
2012, item 638), the police officer may perform those activities without leaving the detainee
in underwear only or without obliging him/her to undress completely.
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YCC in Lidzbark Warmiński KMP.573.28.2017, YCC no. 3 in Warsaw KMP.573.29.2017, YCC in Oława KMP.573.33.2017
YCC in Mszana Dolna KMP.573.16.2017.
Police Emergency Centre for Children in Wrocław BPW.573.2.2017, Police Emergency Centre for Children in Katowice, KMP.573.11.2017
Juvenile Detention Centre and Juvenile Shelter in Konstantynów Łódzki, KMP.573.26.2017
Juvenile Detention Centre in Racibórz, BPK.573.1.2017
Juvenile Detention Centre (JDC) and Juvenile Shelter (JS) in Sadowice, KMP.573.21.2017, JDC in Świecie, KMP.573.17.2017, JDC in Witkowo,
KMP.573.25.2017, JDC in Tarnów, KMP.573.31.2017, YCC in Trzciniec, KMP.573.6.2017
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