Report of the HRD on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2011 ✓✓ ✓✓ ✓✓ ✓✓ or when due to the nature of the place where medical services are provided there is a justified concern that a detainee might escape due to the lack of appropriate technical safeguards; Changing the manner of presenting the Regulations to persons placed in PDRs; Ensuring that the right of a detainee to personally notify a third person about his/her detention is observed, and limiting the agency of Police officers to exceptional situations; Complete renovation of rooms within Police premises for persons detained or brought to sober up; Creating a register of direct coercive measures used in PDRs. Recommendations for specific establishments ✓✓ Superior bodies of Police units, where PDRs operate, should remind Police officers on duty in PDRs about their absolute obligation to respect the dignity of persons detained or brought to sober up; ✓✓ Unconditional compliance of Police officers who detain a person with their obligation to inform the said person about their rights in such situation; ✓✓ Unconditional compliance of Police officers on duty in PDRs with the obligation to inform persons detained and placed in PDRs about the rights they have while staying there; ✓✓ Police officers on duty in PDRs should inform persons who are detained and placed in PDRs and who are under the influence of alcohol about their rights in such situation; ✓✓ Providing to detainees, who expressed their willingness to exercise their right to inform third persons about their apprehension, some feedback about the realisation of this right by Police officers; ✓✓ Unconditional compliance of Police officers on duty in PDRs with the requirement that strip searches are carried out by persons of the same gender as those who are being searched; ✓✓ Making strip searches of persons detained and held in PDRs in unmonitored rooms guaranteeing that no third persons are present during the procedure; ✓✓ Unconditional compliance of Police officers on duty in PDRs with the requirement to regularly control the behaviour of persons held in PDRs – at least once in 30 minutes or – if a PDR is equipped with a monitoring system – at least once in an hour; ✓✓ Abandoning the practice of forced undressing of persons brought to PDRs to sober up; ✓✓ Supplementing the missing accommodation equipment; ✓✓ Handing out sleeping sets to all persons detained and placed in a PDR; ✓✓ Creating conditions ensuring that the intimacy of detainees when they use toilets and showers is respected;, ✓✓ Equipping toilets for detainees with soaps and paper towels; ✓✓ Designating an area where detainees could use tobacco products; 134