CAT/OP/ROU/1/Add.1 In 2017, in the 7 visited units the vacancy announcement of positions is the following: - Aiud Prison: vacancy announcement of 3 positions; Prison for women Ploiesti-Târgşorul Nou: vacancy announcement of 12 positions; Botoşani Prison: vacancy announcement of 4 positions; Giurgiu Prison: vacancy announcement of 10 positions; Iaşi Prison: vacancy announcement of 15 positions; Gherla Prison: no-vacancy announcement until now; Constanţa-Poarta Albă Prison: vacancy announcement of 28 positions. From the staff standardization activity requirements, in relation to the specifics of each prison, it has appeared that the optimal number of the Romanian prison system employees is of 20,102, compared with the 15,041 existing positions. After filling in the existing vacancies in the flowcharts of the prisons, it will be taken into account a strategy to increase the position number, until reaching the optimal number of 20,102 employees. At the same time, by the Memorandum no. 20/7329/SSC/26.04.2016 regarding the "Approval of the calendar of the necessary measures to be taken in order to improve the detention conditions and the probation system" the National Administration of Penitentiaries aims to create new places of detention, which can be sustained only by the allocation of more human resources. In this respect, the required positions estimation for creating new detention places is the following: 2016 -110 positions, 2017-19 positions and 2018-76 positions. Beginning with 2016 untill now, 867 positions were occupied in the operative sector, 52 psychologists, 51 social workers and 146 positions in the medical sector. Regarding the 7 visited prisons, the situation is as follows: - Aiud Prison: 27 positions in the operative sector, 2 psychologists, 1 social worker, 5 positions in the medical sector; Prison for women Ploiesti-Târgşorul Nou: 23 positions in the operative sector, 1 psychologist, 1 social worker, no positions in the medical sector; Botoşani Prison: 35 positions in the operative sector, 2 psychologists, 3 social workers, 6 positions in the medical sector; Giurgiu Prison: 33 positions in the operative sector, 2 psychologists, no social worker position, 3 positions in the medical sector; Iaşi Prison: 53 positions in the operative sector, 2 psychologists, 2 social workers, 6 positions in the medical sector; Gherla Prison: 12 posts in the operative sector, 3 psychologists, 1 social assistant position, 3 positions in the medical sector; Constanţa-Poarta Albă Prison: 57 positions in the operative sector, 4 psychologists, 2 social workers, 4 positions in the medical sector. Regarding the lack of awareness of the medical staff on effective investigation and documentation about torture and other cruel treatments, mentioned in the Istanbul Protocol, we point out that the medical staff in the prison system is fully aware about the importance of investigating torture and other cruel treatments and applies all legal provisions in this area. We mention that, in Romania, the responsibilities consisting in carrying out surveys, examinations, findings, laboratory examinations and other forensic works on alive human beings, corpses, biological products and corpus delicti, in order to establish the truth in the cases concerning offences against life, body integrity and health or in other situations foreseen by the law, belong to the legal medicine institutions, entities which are operating outside the prison system. Thus, the National Administration of Penitentiaries signed, in December 2015, a collaboration protocol with the National Institute of Forensic Medicine "Mina 10