1.5 The recommendations concerning juvenile detention centres The CGLPL's general recommendations concerning juvenile detention centres addressed every aspect of the treatment of minors in these institutions. The details and supervision thereof can be found in Appendix 4. They concern discipline, supervision of security measures, particularly searches, the arrangements for involving the minor and his/her family in the treatment, the balance between respect for minors' privacy and the need to ensure their education and security, the precedence that must be given to their education, improving access to care and, above all, the need to employ sufficient and stable numbers of staff within juvenile detention centres who are adequately trained and supervised. The Judicial Youth Protection Service Directorate conducts regular supervision of both the general recommendations it receives and the recommendations specific to each of the institutions visited. This Directorate agrees with the CGLPL's recommendations overall, and their supervision shows that the regulatory measures required for putting them into practice have been taken. What now matters is the adoption of this new regulation if the CGLPL's recommendations are genuinely going to bring about an improvement in the treatment of minors deprived of liberty. 1.6 The recommendations concerning custody facilities The CGLPL's general recommendations concerning custody facilities bear on the physical treatment conditions, the surveillance conditions of people in custody, particularly at night, the exercise of rights of defence and the possibility of benefiting from a medical appointment. The details and supervision thereof can be found in Appendix 4. The main difficulties encountered have to do with the physical treatment conditions which are often hampered by the state of existing facilities, the means at the investigating police services' disposal or the possibility of consulting a physician or lawyer. These difficulties are not subject to disagreements in principle between the CGLPL and the Government. They will need resolving on a case-by-case basis by allocating the necessary means or via local agreements with the professional associations or hospital institutions. The CGLPL would nevertheless like to draw the Government's attention to two specific points: - the security measures applied to people in custody, especially the seemingly systematic confiscation of spectacles and bras which is not in keeping with the instructions given, either in the national police services or in those of the national gendarmerie, and nor does it respect the dignity of the people concerned. The CGLPL therefore insists that the application of existing instructions be subject to strong awareness-raising measures so that spectacles and bras are only confiscated in the event of proven risk; - there must be no exceptions to the night-time surveillance of people in custody. In gendarmerie units that are too small for officers to be on duty round-the-clock, the need to keep someone in a cell overnight is necessarily exceptional. All efforts must therefore be taken to ensure that this person can spend the allotted night rest period in a gendarmerie or police service – even one further away – where round-the-clock presence is ensured. 55