2.6.2
System-related problem areas – police detention centres ............................... 118
2.6.2.1
Working group obtains first results ................................................... 118
2.6.2.2
Placing prisoners into security cells with insufficient
substantiation .................................................................................... 121
2.6.2.3
Inadequate partitioning of toilet areas in cells for multiple
inmates............................................................................................... 123
2.6.2.4
Communication during medical examinations ................................ 125
2.6.3
First impressions in new Vordernberg detention centre ................................... 127
2.6.4
Klagenfurt police detention centre – no social area for prisoners
serving an administrative penalty ................................................................ 129
2.6.5
Linz police detention centre – repeated criticism of hygiene
standards and the wretched condition of the baths ................................... 130
2.6.6
Positive findings .................................................................................................. 131
2.6.7
System-related problem areas – police stations ............................................... 132
2.6.7.1
Inadequate documentation of detention .......................................... 132
2.6.7.2
Inadequate equipment at police stations ......................................... 133
2.6.8
Call bells in detention rooms that can be switched off ..................................... 134
2.6.9
Voluntary stay in a locked room......................................................................... 134
2.6.10
Positive findings .................................................................................................. 135
2.6.11
System-related problem areas – barracks ........................................................ 136
2.6.11.1
2.6.12
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Sanitary facilities in military inmate cells ........................................... 136
Positive findings .................................................................................................. 136
Coercive acts ........................................................................................................................ 137
2.7.1
Introduction ......................................................................................................... 137
2.7.2
System-related problem areas .......................................................................... 137
2.7.2.1
(Forced) returns .................................................................................. 137
2.7.2.2
Role conflicts of the Association of Human Rights Austria ............... 140
2.7.2.3
Informing the commissions of police operations – new
decree of the Federal Ministry of the Interior .................................... 141
2.7.2.4
Legal controls on aliens relevant to the basic level of
social services .................................................................................... 142
2.7.3
Manifestations against the 2014 Vienna Academics Ball and the
excesses of the “Black Bloc” ......................................................................... 143
2.7.4
Compensatory monitoring measures in the border area ................................. 144
2.7.5
Positive findings .................................................................................................. 145
PROPOSALS TO THE LEGISLATORS ....................................................................................... 147
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