- ensuring that detainees are separated according to the basis of the measure being enforced; - providing premises and equipment enabling arrangements to be made for the professionally appropriate restraint of a violent person towards himself or other persons; - adequately constructed, arranged, equipped and secured sleeping and resting, living, therapeutic and exercise facilities for detained persons, allowing for the treatment and physical, technical, communication and personal protection of detained persons in accordance with the requirements of the psychiatric, penological and security professions; - the adequate number, competence and experience of the medical staff providing treatment and the competence and equipment of the judicial police officers providing security for persons subject to a security measure. In addition to the security measure of compulsory psychiatric treatment and care in a health care institution, the forensic psychiatric units may during the proceedings also carry out detention and observation for the purpose of drawing up a psychiatric expert opinion on the mental capacity or the capacity to participate in the proceedings, as well as psychiatric hospital treatment of convicted persons.105 According to the interviewed judge, detention of persons who are subject to proceedings for the application of security measures is always carried out at the forensic psychiatric unit.106 The implementation of the security measure is further defined by the Rules on the implementation of safety measures including compulsory psychiatric treatment and care in a health care institution and of compulsory psychiatric treatment without detention (the “Rules”).107 The Rules address the persons subjected to the security measures as patients. In accordance with the Rules, patients are admitted to a forensic psychiatric unit on the basis of a decision of the court which has imposed the security measure, accompanied by an 105 Article 151(5) of the Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions Act (Zakon o izvrševanju kazenskih sankcij), 23 February 2000. 106 Interview with a judge. 107 Rules on the implementation of safety measures including compulsory psychiatric treatment and care in a health care institution and of compulsory psychiatric treatment without detention (Pravilnik o izvrševanju varnostnih ukrepov obveznega psihiatričnega zdravljenja in varstva v zdravstvenem zavodu in obveznega psihiatričnega zdravljenja na prostosti), 25 April 2016. 36

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