Report of the HRD on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2011 representatives that due to the lack of night lightning that would allow for monitoring behaviour of the detainees through a spyhole, controlling their state would require turning the on light in the room, which would disturb their night rest. The NPM recommended that the inappropriate practice should be discontinued immediately, and that individual rooms for the detainees be equipped with night lighting allowing for direct monitoring at night. The sensu stricto treatment of the detained persons by officers on duty in PDRs was evaluated positively by the National Preventive Mechanism. Nevertheless, during their visits in Grudziądz and Warszawa VI PDRs, the detainees interviewed by representatives of the Mechanism expressed some remarks on their treatment by PDR staff. The detainees from Grudziądz establishment, who had stayed in it in the past, reported that the manner of treatment depended on the staff working in PDR on a given day. Examples of inappropriate treatment given by them included having to wait long for the permission to use the toilet, following a repeated request. The detained persons interviewed by the NPM’s employees in Warszawa VI PDR complained about the prolonged process of being placed in the PDR, during which they were kept in a waiting room separated by bars, without any seats, and could not drink or eat. One of the interviewees reported that during the waiting time he was subject to mockery by Police officers. Referring to these reports that proved inappropriate treatment of the detainees in Grudziądz and in Warszawa VI PDRs, the superior bodies of the establishments where the said PDRs are located notified the National Preventive Mechanism that trainings on interpersonal communication for Police officers on duty in PDRs were conducted, and that compliance of Police officers with the obligation to respect the dignity of the detainees was constantly monitored. One of the detainees held in PDR in Łódź notified the representatives of the Mechanism during the interview that his bodily inviolability had been infringed by Police officers who had detained him. The incident presented by the detainee was described in a similar way by another detainee interviewed by the NPM’s employees during their visit to PDR in Łódź, who reported having seen Police officers exceeding their duties by slapping the man’s face. Bearing in mind that both men gave a similar account of the situation while being interviewed in separate rooms, the NPM’s representatives, upon consent of the aggrieved detainee, filed a notification of a suspected criminal offence to the competent prosecutor’s office91. The case is in progress. During their visit in the premises for detained persons or persons brought to sober up in the PDR in Kalisz, the representatives of the Mechanism came across a practice of changing clothes of all those brought to the PDR92, and confiscating the shoes of those who were placed in the unit against their will. It should be stressed that the National Preventive Mechanism does not deny that changing clothes of persons placed in PDRs should take place when this  RPO-689856-VII-720.6/11.  These persons stayed in a PDR in underwear only. 91 92 54