2.2.4. The institutions of the State Migration Service In 2017, NPG members held 4 visits to the State Migration Service. The aim of the visit without prior notification under the OPCAT requirements to the Baku Detention Center for Illegal Migrants was detention conditions, conduction of the documentation and ensuring the rights of detainees. A member of the NPG's doctor attended at the visit, and during the visit housing conditions, accommodation and medical rooms, interviews, diningroom, food storage and other facilities were visited.During the visit to the center, only volunteers were placed in the center and were not internally displaced in accordance with the legislation. The received detainees did not express their dissatisfaction. Although the condition of the corpus was normal, the housing was empty for the internally displaced people, but there was a need to improve the situation here. At the same time, applications addressed to the Commissioner, as well as calls to the Hotline Service, also contained requests for assistance in meeting the lawyers in this facility. For example, with regard a citizen of the Russian Federation V.I detained by the State Migration Service staff, his spouse and lawyer filed a complaint to the Ombudsman's Hotline Service on whether they could not obtain any information about him in the context of the visit. The internationally wanted person was not detained in the facility and given to investigating authority, and his location was determined and applicants were informed. The conditions created for married women, women with children, juveniles as well as for foreigners in need of medical supervision, living rooms, and special meals to be provided for them were the subject of investigation. Implementation of recommendations made during the previous visits was also monitored on site. During the visit, the reception and handover to the center, registration history in documentation, shortcomings in the records of the detainees' in their personal files, failure to sign any documents, failure in preparation of any act on the injured person were defined and the head of the center was informed and recommended to eliminate them. The NPG members held visit in the Yevlakh District Detention Center for Illegal Migrants. The aim of the visit was monitoring the detention conditions, nutrition, conduction of the documentation, accessibility of medical service, ensuring the rights of detainees in compliance with the Migration Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as international legislation. It was observed there was a need for the organization of a library, a barbershop and the medical center. 38

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