Part I According to the replies of the Secretary of State in the MIA, of 4 and 5 August 2016154, it is not possible to automatically transpose the Istanbul Protocol guidelines so as to develop medical procedures applicable to all persons admitted to police detention facilities. The Ministry of the Interior and Administration is of the opinion that the solutions provided for in the Regulation of the Minister of the Interior and Administration of 13 September 2012 on medical examinations of persons detained by the police are sufficient and guarantee that medical examinations of detained persons or intoxicated persons to sober up are conducted by doctors with a  medical specialization adequate to the examined person’s health condition. In the opinion of the Ministry, there exist no reasons for conducting separate training courses as the current ones cover the subject of human rights protection, including the subject of torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Moreover, the Police Commander-in-Chief ’s Plenipotentiary for Human Rights Protection, having examined the content of the Istanbul Protocol, concluded that the guidelines contained therein are of general informative nature and recommended the document’s use in this role to the police. 6. Insufficient staffing of PDRs In 2016, no amendments were introduced to Article 2(2) of the Ordinance no. 30 of the Commander-in-Chief of the Police of 7 August 2012 on methods and forms of performing service in rooms for detained persons or intoxicated persons to sober up155, which provides that the supervising officer shall organize work in such a way so as to ensure at least one officer on duty in a police detention room. In accordance with the regulation156, in most of the rooms visited by the NMPT there was one officer on duty who was, at the same time, a deputy for the shift officer and was required to perform other tasks as instructed by him/her. According to the NMPT’s findings of the previous visits, one person is unable to simultaneously ensure the safety of detainees and the possibility for them to exercise their rights. When supervising the behaviour Reply of the Secretary of State in the MIA of 5.08.2016, ref. no. BMP-0790-4-9/2016/MJ; Reply of the Secretary of State in the MIA of 4.08.2016, ref. no. BMP-0790-4-8/2016/MJ. 155 Official Journal of the National Police Headquarters of 2012, item 42. 156 The problem was identified in 3 of 4 PDRs visited by the NMPT in 2016: Płońsk, Aleksandrów Kujawski and Busko Zdrój. 154 55