Report on the Performance of the Activities of the National Preventive Mechanism for 2019 2. RECOMMENDATIONS: Persons deprived of their liberty in the prison system: 1. To the Ministry of Justice, to bring accommodation conditions up to legal and international standards; 2. To the Ministry of Justice, to organise continuous training for prison system staff on the human rights of persons deprived of their liberty; 3. To the RC Government and the Ministry of Justice, to fill the vacancies in penal institutions, in order to respect the rights of those employed there and increase the level of protection of the human rights of persons deprived of their liberty; 4. To the Ministry of Justice, not to use vehicles not equipped with safety belts to transport prisoners; The police system: 5. To the Ministry of the Interior and the Police Directorate, to use means of coercion only proportionately and where necessary, to bring under control individuals acting violently; 6. To the Ministry of the Interior and the Police Directorate, to carry out continuous education for police officers about the rules regulating the use of firearms; 7. To the Ministry of the Interior and the Police Directorate, in procedures to examine citizen complaints about police conduct, to take statements both from the complainants and from other witnesses to the events in question, so as to guarantee the efficiency of the investigative procedure; 8. To the Ministry of the Interior and the Police Directorate, that answers to complaints sent to the complainants should inform them about their right to objection to the MoI's Internal Control Department; 9. To the Ministry of the Interior and the Police Directorate, to ensure that accommodation conditions for persons deprived of their liberty meet international and domestic standards; 10. To the Ministry of the Interior and the Police Directorate, to set up video surveillance in all areas occupied by persons deprived of their liberty, which needs to be accessible to detention supervisors in operations and communications centres; Persons with mental disorders with restricted freedom of movement: 11. To the Ministry of Health, to bring accommodation conditions in all psychiatric institutions into line with international and domestic standards; 12. To the Ministry of Health, to keep records of the use of coercive means in all psychiatric units; 13. To the Ministry of Health, to adequately inform all persons with mental disorders about undergoing treatment in psychiatric institutions as to the aim, nature, effects, benefits and risks of certain medical procedures, as well as their rights; Homes for the elderly: 14. To the Counties and the City of Zagreb, to bring accommodation conditions in stationary departments in all decentralised care homes into line with the Ordinance on the minimum conditions for provision of social services; 33