2016 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE
5. Concerning data registration. The data on the
placement of persons in temporary/long-term
detention facilities are not recorded or are recorded inappropriately; the narrow monitors show
not all the options of the Electronic Register,
which prevents the full use of this software.
Klaipėda County Police Headquarters; the working, temporary detention and interrogation
facilities of the operational group at the Palanga
City Police Station have been equipped with a
ventilation system, and in the working facilities of
the operational group of the Plungė District Police
Station this system has been renovated; doors
have been installed in the sanitary facilities of the
Palanga City Police Station to enable the persons’
private use of the toilet; the Police Stations of
Plungė and Skuodas districts have been outfitted
with shower rooms, and new vandal-resistant
lights have been installed and contracts on the
lease of sports facilities have been concluded at
the Plungė District Police Station; the Skuodas
District Police Station is using its own sports hall;
the police stations have been equipped with
additional dispensers for disinfection liquids; the
chief of the Klaipėda County Police Headquarters
has issued an order on the procedure for the placement of detainees in the temporary detention
facilities and their transfer to the custody facilities,
which has been made available to the officers;
persons detained at the police stations of Palanga, Plungė and Skuodas districts are held for not
more than five hours, thereby solving the issues
of ensuring the necessary supplies and walks,
privacy, organisation of meals and provision of
information; information folders for detained
have been prepared following the approval of
the new internal rules of procedure for the police
custody facilities, and their translations into fo
reign languages will be provided as well.
On completing the inspections at four police
stations, 27 recommendations were provided
to the responsible authorities, including the
Police Commissioner General of the Republic of
Lithuania, the chief of the Klaipėda County Police
Headquarters and the Ministry of Health of the
Republic of Lithuania (of which three recommendations were concerned with the improvement
of the act6ivities of the police custody facilities
and the legal framework of the public health
care). Most of the recommendations (23) were
implemented in full or in part.
In its reply regarding the implementation of the
provided recommendations, the Police Depart
ment indicated that the hardware and software
present at the institutions under the Department
was constantly upgraded where possible, with a
view to ensuring the use of the Electronic Register
to the full extent, and that the legal framework
was being improved by including in the internal
rules of procedure of the police custody facilities a
provision on the supply of clothing and footwear
in case detainees had no garments of their own
or were not dressed for the season.
The Klaipėda County Police Headquarters has
informed that surveillance cameras have been
installed not only in custody cells but also in
interrogation rooms; the food supplied to detainees in custody facilities is checked two to three
times a month and it is distributed by employees
of the catering services provider; in case disabled
persons have to be detained, they are brought
to the facilities adapted for this purpose at the
Four recommendations of the Seimas Ombudsmen have not been implemented: due to the
existing structure of the building, there is no
possibility for enlarging the temporary detention
facilities at the Plungė District Police Station; and
the recommendation to provide appropriate
conditions for washing and drying personal outer
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