 In another case, police officers were hitting, kicking and verbally abusing a detainee when dragging him in a car. Physical violence continued in the car as well. The person had been beaten for about 10 minutes, causing his severe pain. As a result, the detainee sustained injuries, namely bruises. The detainee was taken to the Kakheti Police Department two hours later, where police officers started swearing at him and threatened to falsify evidence in case he did not cooperate with the investigation and confess to the crime. In addition to the alleged cases of ill-treatment described above, attention should be paid to the cases examined by the Department of Criminal Justice of the Public Defender’s Office relating to alleged torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees by the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2019. In the indicated cases, the applicants accuse police officers of verbal and physical abuse, including during transportation. In one of the cases, a person died at the hospital, as a result of multiple head injuries allegedly inflicted by police officers. One lawyer also reported physical abuse by police officers at his home. The cases of ill-treatment of juveniles should be paid particular attention. In 2019, the Department of Criminal Justice examined two cases of juveniles. In one of the cases, the police officer spat at the juvenile, slapped him in the face and kicked him in his abdomen, causing the juvenile to fall off the chair and break his arm. The juvenile was also threatened with rape. In another case, police officers physically abused a juvenile in the car, while after being taken to the police station, they threatened him to kill him in case he did not confess to the crime. Moreover, the juvenile was interrogated at night, without the presence of a legal representative or a lawyer. When monitoring a temporary detention facility, members of the Special Preventive Group check the personal files of all the detainees placed there. As a result, the monitoring group, taking into account the circumstances of the detention, as well as location, number and nature of injuries, may suspect illtreatment. The Special Preventive Group identified 449 suspicious cases210 on the basis of the above principle in 2019. The cases included both administrative detentions and arrests on criminal charges. As a result of the data processing, the Special Preventive Group found that in 143 (31.8%) out of 449 cases mentioned above, persons under administrative detention sustained injuries during and/or after detention. As for the dynamics according to years, in 2016, administrative detainees received bodily injuries during and/or after detention in 12.8% of suspicious cases studied by the Special Preventive Group, in 2017 the same indicator was - 26.4% and in 2018 - 26.8 %, while the statistical indicator of 2019 has not changed significantly (31.8%). Accordingly, there has been a worsening tendency in terms of the treatment of persons under administrative detention since 2017. 210 The inspection was carried out in the territorial police bodies and temporary detention isolators in Kakheti, Imereti, Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, Guria and Adjara regions. 79