2.6.1. Material conditions Rooms for interrogation and conversation with persons deprived of liberty and minors The NPM team determined that in PS Kavadarci there is no special room for conducting a conversation with the detainees, that is the persons deprived of liberty and detained persons. The detainees, that is persons deprived of liberty and the detained persons, are brought for an interview in the office of the shift manager and in the offices of the police inspectors. The Law on Justice for Children stipulates that a conversation with a child is conducted in special rooms suitable for conversation with a child of its age, but the NPM team concludes that the Kavadarci Police Station does not have a separate room for conversation with minors. Detention rooms As part of the Kavadarci Police Station, there are five detention rooms located in the basement of the station itself. Detention rooms are for individual accommodation with a capacity of one bed each. Two rooms are not used at all, and one is used only when needed, which means that up to 3 people can be accommodated in this police station. The three functional rooms have dimensions of 6.84m², for which the NPM team determined that the premises meet the required desired standards 6-7m² for individual accommodation, but none meets the standards in terms of distance of at least 2 metres between the walls. During the inspection of the detention premises, the NPM team determined that they were adequately equipped with partially clean and tidy rest facilities (for short-term and night detention), such as bed, mattress, blanket, pillows for night rest and sleep. Video surveillance cameras have been installed in two rooms, but due to a certain defect they were not functional, while the call system was installed in all rooms. Detention rooms do not meet the standards for daylight and artificial light, they do not have windows through which people would have access to daylight, but a stream of dimmed artificial light entering through windows facing the hallway. There is also a small air flow through the same window (there is a low level of ventilation and there is a stench of moisture). NPM stated that the temperature was 22.2оC and that it was within the acceptable range, while the humidity was around 74.6 RH, which is not within the acceptable range. Of particular concern about the detention premises is the lack of a heating system, namely no special heating devices that would be heated in conditions where they would be a detained person are placed. www. ombudsman.mk 53