PRE-DEPORTATION DETENTION FACILITIES the overall situation. Several detainees criticised the food. Response: The possibility of providing cooking facilities is being examined. In the opinion of the Joint Commission, detainees awaiting deportation may not suffer any detriment to their health on account of their detention. Those who are traumatised generally find their health deteriorating under the conditions of detention. For that reason traumatisation must be accurately diagnosed when detainees are admitted. Where language barriers exist, a professional interpreter should be brought in. Staff should also be able to recognise trauma so they can call in psychiatric and psychological help. The Joint Commission recommends examining the need for training courses and initiating the corresponding measures. Response: The prison doctor (a general practitioner) at Kiel Prison is responsible for the provision of health care to detainees awaiting deportation. He also investigates possible traumatisation when detainees are admitted to the facility. In addition, it is being examined whether the cooperation between Kiel Prison and the Centre for Integrative Psychology (ZIP) at Kiel University can be expanded and whether the ZIP could also work a certain number of hours on a consultative basis in the facility. Detainees awaiting deportation are taken to Kiel Prison for treatment when they are ill, since it is only there that general health care provision can be guaranteed. After placement in the specially secured room and following other special incidents detainees were transferred to Kiel Prison, sometimes for several days. The Joint Commission was given a list of special incidents in 2013. The list contains one case of a mentally ill detainee awaiting deportation who was transferred to Kiel Prison on 12 December 2013 and who remained there until he was deported on 10 January 2014. The Joint Commission requests further details regarding this specific case from the Ministry of Justice, Culture and Europe. Transferring detainees awaiting deportation to Kiel Prison may violate the principle of the separation of prisoners and detainees awaiting deportation if detainees are then accommodated together with sentenced prisoners and remand prisoners. Response: In the past detainees awaiting deportation have been transferred to Kiel Prison in only a few exceptional cases. The grounds therefor were, for example, substitution therapy or the need for more intensive medical care provision. Another reason was the behaviour of one detainee and the need to place him in a specially secured room to calm him down. Detainees are immediately returned to the Pre-Deportation Detention Facility as soon as their health has stabilised. The detainee referred to was arrested on 2 December 2013 by Flensburg Federal Police. The judge issued an order on 3 December 2013. The detainee had talked about suicide, shown evidence of self-harm and threatened to kill himself and others or to take hostages. He was examined in a clinic on 12 December 2013 after fainting and was then taken to Kiel Prison on account of the behaviour he evidenced there. As his behaviour was regarded as unpredictable and latently threatening, he was kept there until he was deported to Denmark on 10 January 2014. 70