PAMANDZI (RECOMMENDATIONS) from squashed mosquitoes. Such a situation must be remedied forthwith without waiting for a new centre to be built. 9/ The situation concerning the centre’s hygiene needs to be totally re-examined in order for detainees to live in decent conditions: • • • indeed the almost permanent occupation of the accommodation does not permit daily cleaning to be carried out. although the internal regulations require it, no distribution of simple hygiene products (toothbrush, toothpaste, razor or shampoo) is carried out when people arrive. after showering, the detainees have no towel and no clean clothes or underclothes. 10/ Confidentiality must be guaranteed for all interviews: • • The single telephone made available to detainees cannot afford any confidentiality for conversations, situated as it is in the middle of the entrance hall and in front of the centre manager’s office; the TAMA aid association for detainees conducts interviews in poor conditions, having no office and no dedicated telephone line. 11/ The detention centre is not a place to receive people who are in police custody: and yet there is a police custody cell which has no right to be there. 12/ The officials are in the centre need to be reminded of the requirements concerning traceability: • • • There are clear omissions in the registers of body searches and of prefectoral expulsion orders. These should be kept with meticulous care; people who are kept apart within the centre, following public order incidents or threats to the safety of other detainees, do not appear in any register. This activity needs to follow a formalised procedure; requests to see a doctor are selected without any objective criteria by the officials designated to be on guard. The absence of any record of the medical requests makes it impossible to know what follow-up has been carried out. 57