beverages (although in case of heat, i.e. when the temperature exceeds 28ºC, their amount is increased). The first meal is received by foreigners after six hours from the moment of placing them in the centre. The visits that took place in 2010 did not reveal any derogations from the rules described above. It should be added that the rooms of the visited establishments, made available to inmates, in the opinion of the visiting persons were maintained in good technical condition and appropriate order. The foreigners were also guaranteed meals (breakfasts, lunches and dinners prepared separately by, for example, a catering company and supplied in disposable containers) and a possibility to take care or their personal hygiene and fitness. They could also make purchases using their own cash. It is worth to stress here that the persons responsible for the functioning of the visited establishments, to which meals are supplied by external companies or other organizational units, are not able to check whether the calorific value of meals actually corresponds to the standards set out in the Ordinance of the Minister of Interior and Administration of 11 December 2007 on the conditions of receiving meals and drinks by foreigners placed in a guarded centre or in a deportation centre and the value of the daily food standard97. Few reservations from the visiting persons as to the living conditions regarded: the need to improve the conditions in one of the sanitary facilities of the Deportation Centre in Szczecin so as to ensure that persons taking shower enjoy appropriate privacy as well as the need to renovate the sanitary facilities and equip the provisional television room with appropriate furniture in the Deportation Centre in Lubań. In the Centre in Krosno Odrzańskie, the visiting persons negatively assessed the method of securing windows from the inside as characteristic for deportation centres and not provided for in valid legal regulations relating to guarded centres for foreigners. Another doubt of the visiting persons concerned the total lack of the sport and recreation infrastructure in the prison yard for adults. In that establishment, the foreigners also indicated that the rooms were not adequately heated. Referring to the doubts of the persons visiting the Deportation Centre in Szczecin, the Deputy Commander of the Nadodrzański Border Guard Unit stated that the conditions to be met by washrooms were laid down in § 17 para. 6 point 5 of the Ordinance of the Minister of Interior and Administration of 26 August 2004 on the conditions to be met by guarded centres for foreigners and deportation centres and the organizational and order regulations for the foreigners' stay in guarded centres for foreigners and deportation centres98. This provision indicates only that the door to the washroom with shower and to toilets equipped with a frosted pane made of shatterproof glass or regular pane secured on both sides with a steel mesh. The applied solution consisting in separating the shower cabins with partitions with a height of 1 m permanently fixed to the floor and walls does not constitute, therefore, in the opinion of the management of the Deportation Centre in Szczecin, a formal irregularity. In the opinion of the National Preventive Mechanism, real professionalism of the staff in deportation centres and guarded centres for foreigners orders them                                                              97 98 Dz. U. of 2007 no. 236, item 1742 Dz. U. no. 190, item 1953