ill-treatment include the obligation to register all detainees transferred to police stations, to produce audio and video recordings, including the interrogation of detainees, and more. One of the ombudsman's recommendations concerned the registration of all persons through the maintenance of registers in police departments, divisions and units, indicating their status, time of entry and exit from the building. The Public Defender also recommended the introduction of systematic, standardized and unified databases in police institutions, which would replace the journals produced in the institution. In the response of the Ministry to both of the above recommendations, it is written that the creation of the mentioned registers and the replacement of the journals produced in the institution require significant software and significant changes in the infrastructural design of the building in the system of the Ministry, besides, additional spaces (FRONT OFFICE) are needed to provide services to citizens, which is associated with significant financial costs and additional human resources, which is impossible to implement at this stage. UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture speaks of need to produce standardized file documents/records of detainees.276 Such a mechanism would enable the monitoring authorities to obtain reliable information on the status of the person, the time of entry and exit from the police station, and would provide a significant additional guarantee of protection against ill-treatment. One recommendation to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia was to improve the documentation of administrative detention. In particular, the Special Preventive Group requested changes and the following information to be added to the administrative detention columns: time of drawing up the protocol; a description of the injuries on the body of the detainee; circumstances under which the arrest took place; whether there was resistance; whether the coercive measure was used and in what form. The presented recommendation has not been implemented. The response received from the Ministry states that there was no need for change. It should be noted that during the entire period of the detainee's stay under the control of the police, the police officer has an obligation to prove that his treatment of the detainee complied with the requirements of the law. Accordingly, documenting actions taken by Police towards a detainee under the law, especially in the case of the use of force or special measures, will help the police to take more responsibility and oversee the fulfillment of statutory obligations. One of the recommendations of the Public Defender was to increase the number of isolators in which medical facilities operate in 2020, and in isolators where there are no plans to open medical facilities due to the small number of detainees, we demanded employment of doctors based on a contract. The recommendation is partly implemented. According to the response received from the Ministry, in 2020, a medical point was opened in 5 temporary detention isolators - Senaki, Chiatura, Ozurgeti, Sighnaghi isolators, also, in Tbilisi, a facility for administrative detainees has been opened (Tbilisi N2 Temporary Detention Isolator). The response states that the Ministry plans to open medical facilities in all isolators. 276Visit of January 25-29, 2016 of the UN Subcommittee on Torture Post-Visit Report to Cyprus, CAT/OP/CYP/1, para: 21. Available in English at the following address: https://bit.ly/3dkjevd [Last visited: 03.01. 2021]. 89

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