Notification of detention According to the applicable legislation, parents of the detained must be informed by the policemen who detain the youth concerned and place him/her in PID. The young detainee is forthwith informed about the causes of detention and about his/her rights, including the right to use attorney services, the right to refuse providing explanations or answers and the right to complain about actions which violate his/her rights. The detainee must be interrogated immediately. Upon their request, detainees can call their parent or guardian or attorney. Moreover, the Police informs the detainee’s parents or guardians promptly166. Upon admission of the detainee to PID the policemen do not have a statutory obligation to notify parents about admission to PID, and the detainee him/herself is not in the position to inform them about it. This may result in a situation where a parent/guardian does not know where his/her child is kept and in what condition he/she is. ☞The detainee should be able to notify an elected person about his/her detention on his/her own (e.g. by phone), and only in specific cases justified by specific circumstances should the notification obligation be carried out by a policeman. Sobering-up centres In 2019 the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture conducted a visit to one sobering-up centre which operates under the Centre for Helping People with Alcohol Issues in the city of Częstochowa. 166 68 See Article 32g § 3 and § 5 of the Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings Act of 26 October 1982 (consolidated version: Journal of Laws (Dz. U.) of 2018, item 969). PART IV – Situation in places of detention