CONSOLIDATED REPORT 109 Mechanism visited 24 special reception centers. NPM members note that in almost all institutions there are issues related to living quarters, medical care, poorly equipped exercise yards, access to drinking water and its quality, the provision of bed clothes and hygiene products, living space standards are not maintained. Financial investments and systemic changes are necessary, of course, for their elimination, but at the same time NPM members in Taraz note that the experience of A special reception center this Taraz institution can be is an institution of internal recommended as an example affairs bodies, designed to of a positive experience. receive and detain persons under administrative arrest. Police stations The placement in special RCs NPM has the written of persons who are subject permission of the Ministry to administrative arrest is of Internal Affairs of the carried out on the basis of Republic of Kazakhstan for the court decision. In special unhindered visits to DIA RCs a regime is established police stations in different that provides round-the- regions. It is difficult to assess clock duty and excludes the the situation there from the possibility of unauthorized point of view of compliance leaving of the detainees with the standards for outside institution. preventing violations of the In 2018, the members constitutional principle of of the National Preventive integrity of human dignity. the procedure for filing complaints and addresses of human rights organizations, attach examples of appeals to national human rights institutions in accordance with Paragraph 2 of Article 20 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan; - Seek the possibility of increasing medical care funding; - When having tenders for the supply (purchase) of bed clothes, pay attention to the quality of bedding, specifically mattresses.