(F) Visit to the Police Detention Centre of Lakatamia The visit to the Police Detention Centre of Lakatamia was scheduled to take place in September 2019. However, following publications on news websites on 29 August 2019 regarding the sudden death of a person detained in the said Detention Centre, a decision was made to speed up the visit which took place on the same day, 29 August 2019. The Officers of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (NPM), who visited the Police Detention Centre of Lakatamia, inspected the premises of the Centre and spoke with the Head Police Officer as well as with other members of the Police on duty during the visit. Due, however, to the fact that an investigation on the above incident was being carried out, the object of the report was limited to the general conditions of detention in the Detention Centre. On the day of the visit to the Police Detention Centre of Lakatamia, ten people were being detained: nine men (two Cypriot nationals and seven third-country nationals) and one woman, a third-country national. The official capacity of the detention centre is thirty-eight people in individual cells: twenty-five for men, one of which for men with disabilities, nine for women, one of which for women with disabilities and four for teenagers. Each group is in a different wing and there is no communication between detainees in other wings. The visit revealed that the main detention area consists of individual cells with a bed with sheets, a small desk, a toilet, a basin and a shower of vandal resistance. The sanitary area 20