Implementation of the Duties and Powers of the National Preventive Mechanism in 2012 SUPERVISION MEASURES/TASKS CORRECTIONAL TASKS HOLDER PARTICIPATING DEADLINE OPOMBA The notification must be visible and published in a way to enable an individual to be informed about its implementation. Detention rooms are under video and audio surveillance but this is not marked with a warning label. In fact, there is a warning at the entrance into the territory of the FRS military post, that 4 the area is under video-surveillance but this notification does not include the notification that certain rooms inside the buildings are under videosurveillance Mark with a suitable warning label that detention rooms are under videosurveillance. Commandant POVL OGV/ 17th MPB Commandant POVL OGV/ 17th MPB Immediately The natural light in the detention room is satisfactory, but the artificial light is poor. In both detention rooms, lamps producing artificial light are set directly above the entrance into the room, in a channel of approximately 8 x 60 centimetres, 5 which are covered with obscured glass, thus additionally reducing the light spreading into the room. It is most probable that barely enough light is provided by such light at night time to enable the video-surveillance of a detained person. Verify whether the existing lamps provide for enough artificial light at night time to enable an efficient video- surveillance of a detained person. In case of deviation, verify the option on installing a stronger or additional lamp in both detention rooms. Commandant POVL OGV/ 17th MPB Commandant POVL OGV/ 17th MPB Immediately In addition to detention rooms, the 17th MPB also has an interrogation room, which is equipped with a larger table, five chairs, a computer and two monitors. According to the explanation by the 6 NPM, a discussion held between a lawyer and a detained person is also made possible (or might be made possible) in this room, if such discussion might be needed. The room is under the videosurveillance but not marked. Mark with a suitable warning label that the lobby is under videosurveillance. Commandant POVL OGV/ 17th MPB Commandant POVL OGV/ 17th MPB Immediately Commandant POVL OGV/ 17th MPB PPzVP 5.7.2012 It was established during interviews, that, for the purpose of the construction of detention rooms, rules were developed which included some standards of construction used by the Prison Administration of the Republic of Slovenia in regard to the construction of isolation rooms. Detention rooms were constructed in line with the standards for the construction of detention Lodge an initiative to 7 rooms used by the Ministry of the Interior and the modify the Rules. Police (Rules on the construction of detention rooms in the Slovenian Armed Forces and Military Police) (particularly in the part that refers to the arrangement of walls and the floor – Article 9). According to the rules, a fire extinguisher must be placed in any sanitary annexe (Article 10 of the Rules). National Preventive Mechanism in the Republic of Slovenia under the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 133

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