Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Poland in 2017 ƒƒ A juvenile said that he was hit and seated on a chair. He was handcuffed. When he was placed in an armoured cabinet, police officers started hitting it with truncheons. He was also being hit with a truncheon on his heels and at the moment of detention they sprayed gas into his face. He was not examined by a doctor following his detention. He first saw his ex-officio lawyer during the court hearing. ƒƒ Another one revealed that he was taken to one of the police rooms. He was seated on a chair with his hands cuffed at the back. The boy remained handcuffed for the whole period of the interrogation. Officers wanted to know the origin of the drugs and who sells them. He was being hit with an open hand and punched with a fist all over his body. After some time, the door opened and he could see his teary cousin in the opposite room. ƒƒ The minor explained that he was beaten by police officers upon detention and also later at the police station. He said that he was punched on his neck, he was kicked and flung to the ground and handcuffed. The handcuffs were on all the time until he was transported to the juvenile shelter. ƒƒ Another juvenile was interrogated at 1 o’clock at night in relation to the escape of some centre residents. The interrogation took place in a monitored visit room but none of the establishment’s employees was present. The boy claimed that the officers were threatening him that he would be considered an accomplice. He mentioned that the officers made malicious comments addressed at him. ƒƒ A juvenile reported that he was detained on a staircase and then transported to the 5th police station in Katowice. This is where officers (policeman and policewoman) tried to force him to give false evidence. As he claimed, he received two blows with a truncheon and his legs were cuffed to a radiator (in the interrogation room). A lawyer was absent, so were any third parties. As the juvenile stated, the officers “had a crime, but there was no culprit”, so they tried to make him admit guilt. They were screaming at him. All reported cases are now used by the NMPT to examine irregularities with respect to interrogating juveniles by police officers. The Commissioner for Human Rights addressed an intervention to the Voivodeship Commander-in-Chief of the Police in Wrocław and to the Prosecutor’s Office in Wrocław94 in relation to the interrogation of a juvenile with mild intellectual disability by an officer of the police station in Jelenia Góra. In the opinion of the Commissioner, the method of bringing the juvenile to interrogation was in breach of the provision of the Code of Criminal Procedu94 Cf. KMP.573.21.2016 42