2.2.3 On-site verifications Pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 6-1 of the amended Law dated 30 October 2007 instituting the Contrôleur général of places of deprivation of liberty, “Where the facts or the situation brought to his attention fall within his jurisdiction, the Contrôleur général of places of deprivation of liberty may carry out visits, where necessary, on-site”. The on-site verifications are conducted by the inspectors in charge of the referred cases. Taking into account the time required for training the two new inspectors in charge of referred cases (who arrived in March and April respectively) and the objective of reducing the time taken for handling the referrals, it was not possible to significantly increase the number of on-site verifications even though the CGLPL conducted two more of them as compared to the previous year. Thus, from January to the end of November 2015, the CGLPL conducted seven on-site verifications, all of which were conducted without prior notice. The Contrôleur général participated in one of them. For the first time, three on-site verifications pertained to persons placed in administrative detention; in fact, one of them lasted until the persons concerned boarded their plane for deportation; the second one consisted of observing the methods of treatment of persons placed in custody or in administrative detention for verifying their right of residence until they were placed in administrative detention and until they arrived at the administrative detention centre. The latter on-site verification resulted in publishing the emergency Recommendations dated 13 November 2015 pertaining to the collective transfers of foreign nationals taken in for questioning in Calais. The Contrôleur général delegated two to three inspectors to conduct the on-site verifications under the following circumstances: - In keeping with the line of thought of the CGLPL on this theme and the on-site verifications that were already complete, three inspectors visited a detention centre in order to observe the methods of assistance provided to older detainees and/or dependents in daily life. In fact, during the visit to the institution in 2009, it was noted that detainees who were handicapped, older or had difficulties in terms of independence were assigned to cells located on the ground floor of the two detention buildings; they benefited, pursuant to an agreement established for this purpose, from the intervention of professional assistants in accomplishing the tasks of daily life. However, the CGLPL was informed that this presence of external assistants and professionals was no longer assured and that the general department assistant, who was in charge of this task, behaved inappropriately with these vulnerable people. After the on-site verification and before drafting the report, two letters were addressed to the Chairman of the General Council and the Director of the Hospital of Riom, respectively, asking for additional information on the reason for why the agreement pertaining to taking care of the dependence of the persons detained in the detention centre, concluded in 2013, was not implemented, and asking for the alternative solutions developed to ensure an effective assistance for the detainees. The final report is being drafted. - The Contrôleur général was informed of the existence of a document titled “Confiscated letters”, mentioning that all inward and outward letters, including those from lawyers and the authorities, for two Basque female detainees, should be “blocked”: “block all incoming and outgoing letters (including letters from lawyers and the authorities), and give them to the head of the QF”, with the grounds for the confiscation being “EMS 3, Basque DPS” and “Basque monitoring”. With extra care being taken to respect the confidentiality of the correspondence between her services and the detainees, 94