Police stations X 2.7.8 Availing of supervision should be promoted and fears and reservations avoided. In particular, managers should encourage the staff in their police stations to avail of supervision. A positive picture of supervision should be imparted already during basic police training. Violence prevention training In September 2019, a commission visited Mureck police station. The Federal Ministry of the Interior presented the training programme for domestic violence during the investigative proceedings. From the NPM’s point of view, it is positive that the Ministry collaborates with the violence prevention centres as well as the intervention office in Vienna. As per May 2020, there were 516 law enforcement officers specially trained in the area of violence prevention nationwide. An additional 40 regional trainers were available. From January 2019 to mid-March 2020, 246 officers from the Police Department of Styria and 100 officers from the Police Department of Carinthia were trained in 80 training programmes in the area of violence prevention. The Federal Ministry of the Interior promised a needs-based increase in so called “GIP” officers (i.e. specialists in violence in the private sphere) including the necessary new training programmes when the COVID-19 restrictions have been eased. 2.7.9 Special training of law enforcement officers in domestic violence Lack of privacy during examinations by the police (public) medical officer As explained in detail in the NPM Report 2017, the NPM recommended the Federal Ministry of the Interior to provide separate examination rooms in police detention where possible but, in any case, to take technical precautions to ensure that privacy is guaranteed during medical examinations (see NPM Report 2017, p. 161 et seq.). Hohenbergstraße police station is one of the few police stations that has a dedicated examination room. Nevertheless, the monitoring showed that the doctors involved tend to use the admission room in the detention area. The examination room is – according to the Federal Ministry of the Interior – only used for intensive examinations. Examinations often take place in detention area On a positive note, around three quarters of all examinations in the period from 15 November 2019 to 15 May 2020 were carried out without the presence of law enforcement officers as recommended by the NPM. However, the NPM criticised the non-exclusive use of the examination room in Hohenbergstraße police station. 162