CAT/OP/CHE/ROSP/1 during the preceding three hours, detained persons had no official information about their rights or any access to family members, legal counsel or a doctor. 60. The Subcommittee reiterates its recommendation that all persons deprived of their liberty should be granted access to fundamental safeguards from the moment of deprivation of liberty. The State party should, moreover, ensure that information on the rights of persons deprived of their liberty is displayed at police stations in a position where it can be read easily and in the appropriate languages. 61. At the cantonal police facility in Bern railway station, the digital registers were meticulously kept, and the delegation observed that persons in police custody spent no more than three hours at the facility. At the Bern cantonal police station,12 the same procedure was applied; after 24 hours, individuals taken into police custody were released or transferred to the Bern regional prison, at the decision of the prosecutor. A document informing detainees of their rights was available in several languages. 62. At the municipal police station in Lausanne and the Vaud cantonal police station in La Blécherette, there were various categories of detainee: persons in police custody but also pretrial detainees and sentenced prisoners awaiting a place in prison. Indeed, owing to a lack of space in prisons, pretrial detainees and convicted prisoners were being held in police lockups, at the decision of the prosecutor. 63. The delegation was dismayed to learn that some detainees had spent more than one month in police custody cells. Most of the persons that the delegation met did not know how long they would remain there. The delegation found it inconceivable that convicted prisoners were serving their sentences in police stations, notwithstanding the efforts made by staff to apply, artificially, a regime akin to that in prisons. 64. The sentence reductions and, on occasion, financial compensation granted by way of reparation cannot justify such a situation, which has persisted despite having been condemned several times by the Federal Supreme Court 13 and notwithstanding the recommendations of CPT 14 and the committee of official visitors of the Vaud Cantonal Parliament.15 65. The Subcommittee recommends that the State party transfer without delay pretrial detainees and prisoners serving sentences to institutions suitable for longerterm incarceration; it is imperative that police stations revert to their role as custody facilities for periods not exceeding 48 hours, 16 as envisaged in the Code of Criminal Procedure. 3. Physical conditions 66. The delegation observed major disparities in the physical conditions of the police stations and cells visited. 12 13 14 15 16 10 Polizeiwache Konolfingen. Voir, notamment, Suisse, Tribunal fédéral, A. contre Ministère public de l’arrondissement de Lausanne, ATF 139 IV 41, arrêt 1B_788/2012 du 5 février 2013, première Cour de droit public ; et Suisse, Tribunal fédéral, X. c. Ministère public central du canton de Vaud, arrêt 6B_17/2014 du 1er juillet 2014, Cour de droit pénal. En 2015, la CNPT a appelé à prendre des « mesures urgentes » pour remédier à une situation qualifiée de traitement inhumain au sens de l’article 3 de la Convention de sauvegarde des droits de l’homme et des libertés fondamentales (Convention européenne des droits de l’homme). Suisse, canton de Vaud, « Rapport de la Commission des visiteurs du Grand Conseil et déterminations du Conseil d’État audit rapport : du 1er juillet 2017 au 30 juin 2018 », document GC 067, juillet 2018. L’article 27 de la loi d’introduction du Code de procédure pénale suisse (loi no 312.01 du 19 mai 2009) du canton de Vaud dispose que toute personne peut demeurer dans les locaux de la police pendant quarante-huit heures au plus. GE.21-03779