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GENERAL RECOMMENDATION
FOR REMEDYING THE IDENTIFIED SHORTCOMING
Detention rooms in the police station should be in line with the applicable standards, and
therefore it is necessary to secure necessary funds for these purposes.
Instructions on treatment of persons brought in and detained persons should be aligned
with the applicable regulations and standards.
When bringing in persons to a police station, police officers shall not handcuff every person,
but shall do so only due to justified reasons and when such an action is necessary, and in
the cases stipulated by the laws.
Police officers shall not be present in the course of the medical check-ups of detainees,
unless doctor explicitly requires so. Police officer shall timely provide a doctor with all
available information which are relevant for decision on presence of a police officers in the
course of a medical check-up of a detainee.
It is necessary to provide for continuous training sessions for police officers in prohibition
of ill-treatment and in standards of treatment of brought-in persons, arrested persons and
detained persons, and particularly the organized training in the exercise of police powers
towards persons with mental disorders, i.e., in the police officers’ treatments in line with the
provision of the Law on the Protection of Persons with Mental Disorders.
6.2.
Enforcement of pre-trial detention
In the reporting period, the NPM conducted 5 visits to pre-trial detention units in the DP
Kraljevo, DP Leskovac, DP Novi Sad and it 2 visits to DP Belgrade. In that regards, the total of
36 recommendations for elimination of found deficiencies were issued. The total of 25
recommendations were complied with, 2 were not complied with at all, whereas the
compliance with 9 recommendations still needs to be monitored.
Acting in line with the NPM recommendations, in the renovated pre-trial detention blocks of
the DP Belgrade its biggest sleeping rooms were rearranged and equipped with all necessary
equipment, thereby enabling to all detainees to spend a part of a day in the common daily
rooms. The space for common daily room dedicated to detainees in all accommodating blocks
and their equipping with necessary equipment shall be realized in the course of the current
reconstruction of the institutions. Likewise, under the plan for construction of a new building
in the DP Leskovac in 2016, common rooms for daily stay of detainees are also planned.
However, in the most of the institutions, detainees are not allowed to spend their time outside
their cells, in the common rooms with the other inmates with whom they are not prohibited to
have contact under the court decision, which is in contravention with the applicable standards
and NPM recommendations.
In line with the NPM recommendations, DP Belgrade improved its health-care in a way that
the first check-ups when admitting new detainees to the institution are, as a rule, done with no
presence of non-medical staff. Exceptionally, in line with the request of a competent doctor and
by recording the facts justifying the reasons for a decision of that kind, medical check-ups are
done in the presence of non-medical staff. In the course of the first medical check-up, check-up
of the whole body is done for a possible establishment of injuries and descriptions of them, as
well as for the purpose of doctors’ conclusion on the correlation of circumstances under which
these injures were inflicted. Further on, work of the health-care service is organized during
weekends, when a medical technician is present in both shifts, and in the afternoon the on-call
doctor’s shifts were introduced.
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