• To separate psychological documentation from medical records; • To provide foreign migrants with information on the planned enforcement of deportation decisions immediately after the date of the deportation has been set; • To use handcuffs when convoying the foreign migrants only in individual cases justified by specific circumstances; • To ensure that accommodation rooms have curtains or window blinds; • To assign one room as a smoking room in every accommodation building of the centre; • To arrange for a second room with access to computers. Recommendations that the NMPT has considered implemented in part: • To have any signs of violence, visible on the foreign migrant’s body and reported by them as signs of violence, including torture, assessed from the medical point of view to verify whether violence has been used; • To provide professional in-person interpretation by external interpreters in all identification activities and not to use interpretation by other foreign migrants; • To provide training to medical staff, psychologists, the education team members and other officers in the identification of, and communication and work with traumatized persons and survivors of violence including torture or inhuman treatment, as well as persons with mental disorders393. Recommendations that the NMPT has considered not implemented: • To have psychological services provided by several persons with competencies in the identification and support of persons with special needs - there was one psychologist employed in the centre who was present there once a week for three hours, and also when needed; • To introduce the possibility of regular meetings with a psychologist without the foreign national having to request a meeting every time - a foreign national who wants to meet with a psychologist has to report such a need to a member of the Education Team or to medical personnel; 393 As of 2019, four officers (managers) took part in the training courses. The courses covered: "Methods of coping with stress at work and on duty", "Preparation of officers to carry out their duties within cross-border cooperation with European Union member states and other countries based on bilateral agreements", "Exchange of experience and best practices on the performance of tasks by the Education Section in guarded centres for foreign migrants" and a language course (English). 144

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