Situation during visit (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) extension of a detention order before the competent court. However, this mechanism was not effective in practice. (i) Judges and prosecutors It appeared that judges and routinely ask persons brought from prosecutors did not ask police custody how they have been detainees how they had been treated and, even in the absence of treated in police custody. a formal complaint from the defendant, order an independent medical examination in accordance with the Istanbul Protocol. (j) Those legally arrested should Article 100 CCP stipulates that not be held in facilities under the a police officer who was not control of their interrogators or satisfied with a testimony investigators for more than the should send the person time required by law to obtain a concerned to the Public judicial warrant of pre-trial Prosecutor within 24 hours, detention, which should not exceed who in turn had to question 48 hours. After this period they him or her within 24 hours. An should be transferred to a pre-trial individual could bring action facility under a different authority, for deprivation of liberty where no further unsupervised against an official who kept contact with the interrogators of him or her in custody for over investigators should be permitted. 24 hours without questioning. However, in practice persons were at times detained longer than 24 hours. Steps taken in previous years (to be found in A/HRC/7/3/Add.2, A/HRC/10/44/Add.5 and A/HRC/16/52/Add.2) Government: The Ministry of Interior instructed all administrative governors to allow lawyers to attend interrogations of suspects conducted by the administrative governors. - A medical care clinic was established within the detention centre, where two doctors and two nurses are available around the clock, in addition to a dental clinic and a pharmacy. Each detainee is examined by a doctor and given the necessary treatment; a medical file is opened for him and a counselor is made available for psychological consultation. Non-governmental sources: In general, detainees are not asked, but the NCHR monitors some individual cases. Information received in the reporting period A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 154 Recommendation (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) proceedings.