Publication highlights segregation of prisoners serving life sentences will be reviewed after a fullyfledged individual risk assessment procedure is put in place. 59. As regards psychiatric and social care institutions, the CPT has noted that new regulations on the use of means of restraint have been adopted by the Ministry of Health. That said, almost no improvements were observed during the 2010 visit with respect to the provision of psychiatric care and the implementation of legal safeguards for involuntary hospitalisation of civil psychiatric patients; several recommendations made in previous reports have been reiterated. Further, the Committee has made a number of recommendations aimed at improving living conditions in the various institutions visited. In their response, the Armenian authorities provide information on measures taken to improve the situation in psychiatric and social care institutions. Reports and responses published in August 2011, CPT/Inf (2011) 24 and CPT/Inf (2011) 25, and October 2012, CPT/Inf (2012) 23 and CPT/Inf (2012) 24 Report on the periodic visit to Bulgaria in October 2010 and response of the Bulgarian authorities (treatment of persons detained by the police, conditions in investigation detention facilities (IDFs) and prisons, situation of psychiatric patients and persons with mental disabilities) 60. The majority of the persons interviewed by the CPT’s delegation said that they had been correctly treated by the police. Nevertheless, a considerable number of persons alleged physical ill-treatment at the time of their apprehension, and some allegations were also received of ill-treatment during police question­ ing. In a few isolated cases, the delegation heard accounts of the infliction of electric shocks. While welcoming a ministerial instruction aiming at setting up special rooms equipped for making electronic (audio and video) recording of questioning in all police directorates, the CPT has recommended that a code of conduct for police interviews be drawn up and that police officers receive specific training in recognised interviewing techniques. A firm message of “zero tolerance” of ill-treatment should also be delivered to all police staff. In their response, the Bulgarian authorities refer to an order issued by the Minister of the Interior shortly after the CPT’s visit, introducing measures to prevent ill-treatment of detained persons. Information is also provided on the training received by police officers, with an emphasis on the protection of human rights. 61. The delegation found that with the notable exception of the facility in Plovdiv, material conditions in the IDFs visited still did not meet the necessary standards. It also remained the case that the vast majority of persons held in IDFs were confined to their cells for 23 hours a day, for weeks or even months 25