CAT/C/FIN/CO/7 15. The State party should strengthen the national preventive mechanism by providing it with sufficient financial and human resources to enable it to carry out its mandate independently and effectively, in accordance with the guidelines of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. It should also consider the possibility of establishing the national preventive mechanism as a separate entity under the Parliamentary Ombudsman, with budgetary and staffing autonomy. Detention of remand prisoners in police detention facilities 16. While taking note of the amendments in the Prison Act and the Remand Imprisonment Act and the submission to Parliament on 1 December 2016 of the Government’s proposal on remand imprisonment, including that starting in 2025 at the latest remand prisoners should no longer be held in police detention facilities, the Committee remains concerned at the lengthy detention of remand prisoners in police detention facilities, which do not meet the conditions required for holding such prisoners, about the threats and ill-treatment to which they may be subjected, the lack of outdoor exercise and the lack of access to television and of involvement in other meaningful activities. It is also concerned that some persons continue to be held in police detention facilities solely for being intoxicated (arts. 2, 11 and 16). 17. The State party should: (a) Discontinue holding remand prisoners in police detention facilities and allocate sufficient financial, human and infrastructural resources to the Criminal Sanctions Agency to allow the Agency to place remand prisoners in appropriate places of detention; (b) Accelerate judicial proceedings and, whenever feasible, make use of alternatives to detention such as electronic supervision, enhanced travel bans, house arrest and bail; (c) Maintain the legal guarantees and status of remand prisoners placed in police detention facilities and introduce genuine daily outdoor exercise, allow the use of television and involvement in other meaningful activities for remand prisoners; (d) Provide the Committee with information about the outcome of the Ministry of Justice working group’s efforts concerning the transfer of responsibility for remand prisoners held at police facilities to the administrative branch of the Ministry; (e) Ensure that persons held solely for being intoxicated are placed under the supervision of appropriately qualified staff, for example in detoxification centres. Detention of juveniles 18. While taking note that the small number of juveniles in detention makes it difficult to build separate detention facilities for that purpose, the Committee is concerned that minors are held with adult prisoners in places of detention (arts. 2, 11 and 16) 19. The Committee recommends that the State party take steps to separate juvenile detainees from adults in all places of detention, bearing in mind their best interests, in accordance with the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (the Beijing Rules) and the United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty. 5