Police detention centres existence of exclusion criteria and searching of the persons to be visited as well as all prisoners before and after a table visit would have to be documented. Even more personnel is required to this end. The Federal Ministry of the Interior stated that the working group did not discuss the amount of funds necessary for these measures, which is not currently covered by the budget. This is why the regular enabling of table visits is currently not possible. According to the Ministry there is no money For the NPM, it is highly critical that the Federal Ministry of the Interior is now withdrawing on the basis of budgetary aspects allegedly not discussed by the working group. All of the participants in the working group – naturally including those from the Ministry – were aware that the unanimously defined standards can only be realised if the relevant funds are available. The topic was discussed, but inclusion in the standards was rejected, as the budget would have to be available in order to fulfil the standards. Working group certainly did discuss budgetary aspects With regard to the occupational opportunities, the minutes of the working group approved by all participants on 23 February 2016 contain the following passage: “It is recommended to include a passage in the standards which considers the guarantee in the current budget that functional devices and objects for leisure activities should always be available. If the standards exist and they should be fulfilled, it is of course necessary that a budget is planned for the same. Anchoring this in the standards is thus not necessary”. The NPM therefore assumed and relied on the fact that funds would be available for the jointly defined standards. The NPM cannot understand the security concerns either. These are based on an objectively unverifiable general suspicion of all persons in police detention. The Federal Ministry of the Interior did not consider that the working group agreed criteria for precluding table visits, for example the suspected abuse of prescription medication or when there are specific security concerns. Subjective general suspicion at the expense of all detainees In addition, it was also not taken into account that several visits were to police detention centres in which there is no enforcement pending forced return. The safety arguments that predominantly referred to detention pending forced return did not apply in these centres. The Federal Ministry of the Interior completely ignored the detention-centre-specific arguments. The NPM is not satisfied with this and will continue to follow-up on this topic. During a meeting with the NPM from Germany and Switzerland in Zurich in autumn 2019, it was learned that open visits in detention pending forced return are considered normal in both of these countries. This is further motivation for open visits in police detention. After a visit to Innsbruck police detention centre in March 2018, the NPM confronted the Federal Ministry of the Interior with the fact that it is not possible for prisoners to have visits on Saturdays or Sundays. The Federal Visit to Innsbruck police detention centre at weekends 154