Recommendations of the National Preventive Mechanism ✓✓ Police officers on duty in PDRs should pay attention that medical services provided to detainees are diligently documented by physicians; ✓✓ Allowing persons detained and placed in PDRs to exercise their right to purchase tobacco products, toiletries and newspapers with their own money; ✓✓ Participation of PDR staff in premedical first aid trainings and in interpersonal communication trainings. 3.3. Police emergency centres for children Systemic recommendations ✓✓ Eliminating cases when juveniles are detained in Police emergency centres for children for a period exceeding that stipulated in Article 40 of the Act on j.d.p.; ✓✓ Allowing juveniles to have phone contact with parents or legal guardians; ✓✓ Carrying out medical examinations of newly admitted juveniles, where possible; ✓✓ Providing health care services to juveniles out of sight and hearing range of non-medical staff. Recommendations for specific establishments ✓✓ Ensuring that detained juveniles are searched only by persons of the same gender; ✓✓ Eliminating the practice of gathering information from juveniles, which is a duty of relevant Police departments and units operating within the Police; ✓✓ Abandoning the practice of producing operational and investigation materials obtained from juveniles detained in an ECC; ✓✓ Eliminating the practice of placing juveniles under the influence of alcohol in Police emergency centres for children; ✓✓ Formally notifying the competent family court about the lack of interest in the child on the part of its legal guardian and about the lack of legal measures taken on his/her behalf; ✓✓ Eliminating the practice of using punishments and rewards incompliant with the Ordinance of the Minister of the Interior and Administration of 21 January 2002 on detailed rules governing the stay of juveniles in Police emergency centres for children; ✓✓ Visits are to take place without the presence of a Police officer, unless specific circumstances justify such presence; ✓✓ Undertaking measures to offer constructive activities to detained children, with particular emphasis on education; ✓✓ Increasing the offer of sport and recreation activities; ✓✓ Reducing to the minimum the period of time when juveniles have nothing to do; ✓✓ Displaying in an easily accessible place the addresses of institutions protecting the rights of juveniles, in particular: the Human Rights Defender, the Ombudsman for Children, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, and a family court judge; 135