CHANCELLOR OF JUSTICE AS NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM PART IV PART III PART II PART I prefectures. The causes of deaths could be divided in three broad categories: poisoning, serious illness and suicide. As a result of investigating the circumstances of the deaths, the Chancellor made the following recommendations to the PBGB: 1) to ensure effective supervision of detainees in the cells (e.g. through a peephole or hatch in a door in combination with video surveillance) and install video surveillance in the cells in Tallinn sobering-up facility; 2) to change the practice of distribution of narcotic and psychotropic medicines to detainees, so that each time a staff member of the detention centre must be satisfied that a detainee has actually administered the medicine. If a detention centre has medical staff, they should be involved in the distribution of narcotic or psychotropic medicines to detainees to monitor the administration of the medicine; 3) to consider organising training of officers in charge of the detention chambers on the effects of narcotic and psychotropic medicines and assessment of the health of persons placed for sobering up; 4) to improve effectiveness of the search of cells where persons using narcotic and/or psychotropic medicines are placed. In addition, the Chancellor asked the Director General of the PBGB to provide an overview of how the police have complied with the tasks set out in the Minister of Internal Affairs letter No 9-2/65-3 of 17 September 2012, which also concerned the death cases of detained persons and which were prompted by the Chancellor’s analysis of the deaths of detained persons in 2011. The Director General of the PBGB agreed with the Chancellor’s recommendations and noted that training events and study days on the issues observed by the Chancellor have already been organised for officers in charge of supervision of detainees and these efforts will continue in 2014. For example, the PBGB training plans for 2014 include a follow-up training on the nature of narcotic intoxication and the effect of medicines used to alleviate it. 2. Expulsion centre (detention centre for foreigners) In 2013, advisers to the Chancellor carried out an unannounced inspection visit and a follow-up visit to the expulsion centre of the PBGB: −− inspection visit to the PBGB expulsion centre (since 1 October 2013 called the detention centre for foreigners) (case No 7-7/130203); −− follow-up inspection visit to the PBGB detention centre for foreigners (case No 7-7/131436). A general practitioner was involved in the inspection visit as an expert. On 1 October 2013, the expulsion centre was renamed the detention centre for foreigners, following a change in the legal grounds for the detention of asylum seekers. Therefore, the Chancellor pointed out that reorganisation of the centre requires more focus on the distinct nature of the situation of asylum seekers. Inter alia, it is necessary to take into consideration different eating traditions and provide psychological counselling to people who do not speak the foreign languages most commonly used in our region. The Chancellor’s previous inspection visit to the expulsion centre took place in 2011. 2.1. 16 Application of coercion As a result of the inspection, the Chancellor dealt with the issue of legality of the use of handcuffs. Specifically, it was found that handcuffs were usually used in case of escorting