• To ensure that full body search of remand/convicted persons is carried out only based on individual risk assessment of a particular prisoner, with due account to the principles of proportionality and necessity; furthermore, when requesting full body search it is necessary to offer scanning as an alternative screening method which will be defined by the statutes of penitentiary establishments; • To take all the measures to ensure that the statutes of penitentiary establishments clearly differentiate between strip-searches and body cavity searches and appropriate procedures are determined for each measure; • To take all measures that during full body searches stripping different parts of body at once is not requested and the so-called ‘doing squats’ practice is eradicated; • To take all the measures to eradicate the practice of full body search of minors visiting inmates in establishment no. 5 for women prisoners; • To take all the measures to ensure that where scanning has been used as an alternative method of screening, other measures of inspection are not additionally used; • To ensure monitoring by the Inspectorate General of the procedures for admission of visitors to a penitentiary establishment for averting arbitrariness of the personnel and that the inspection is carried out in accordance with the legislation in force and international standards; and • To take all measures to ensure that the personnel of the Ministry of Corrections are adequately informed that the Public Defender/members of the Special Preventive Group, due to their status, are not required to undergo inspection of their personal items and clothing, and to undergo scanning, and full body search. 3.4. PERSONNEL: WORKING CONDITIONS, TRAINING AND ACCOUNTABILITY In accordance with the Nelson Mandela Rules, the prison administration shall provide for the careful selection of every grade of the personnel, since it is upon their integrity, humanity, professional capacity and personal suitability for the work that the proper administration of prisons depends.98 The penitentiary establishments employ personnel in administrative, social security, security, legal regime and special registration units. Furthermore, there is a health-care unit employing civil servants of the ministry’s civil service and visiting specialists.99 The personnel of the administrative and social security units are civil servants and the Law of Georgia 98 99 60 The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules), Rule 74.1. See the statutes of penitentiary establishments. HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN CLOSED INSTITUTIONS

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