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d)creating a system to ensure timely information of decision-making factors in order to remove
the potential danger;
e)the operative verification of all notifications of detainees, of their family members and of
third parties with regard to acts of violence on them, in order to take the legal measures;
f) developing adequate educational, psychological assistance and social assistance programmes
and activities.
If the indicate measures are not sufficient the transfer to another penitentiary or
hospital-penitentiaries may be ordered.
Para. 54 let. e) - Prohibition of all forms of violence against children
As duly noted in the Report, the SPT did not find any evidence of ill-treatment in
the Police’s Centres for Detention and Preventive Arrest and the only complaint
formally lodged did not stem from a child. Therefore, the General Inspectorate of
the Romanian Police holds that children’s rights are held in high regard in its
detention facilities and reaffirms its commitment to continue in this positive light
in the long run.
According to the law, it is forbidden for the educational centre or detention
centre staff (subordinated to the National Administration of Penitentiaries) to use
immobilization means when dealing with the confined person, with certain
exceptions provided by the law.
The minors in educational centres are a special category of inmates, whose
personality is in the most important stage of the growing process, so all the
activities carried out with this category of confined persons are centred on
educational activities, schooling and psycho-social assistance, with emphases on
positively influencing the behaviour and stimulating the strengthening of
constructive relations with the support environment. Therefore, taking into
account the high vulnerability of the confined minors, intervention units
(operational groups/teams) are not established in the educational centres. In
order to solve violent or aggressive incidents involving confined minors, the staff
of these detention spaces uses mainly communication and negotiation
techniques.
The staff working with minors and young inmates must benefit of proper training
so that they should be able to carry out their professional responsibilities efficiently,
especially in order to get to know teenagers’ psychological particularities,
communication with young inmates, as well to know the international standards
and norms on Human Rights.
In 2016, within the project called “Strengthening the capacity of Bacău Prison for
minors and young inmates to observe the relevant instruments concerning human
rights”, developed through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2009-2014, a team
composed by specialists of the National Administration of Penitentiaries and the
prisons having under custody minors and young inmates, elaborated a training
course addressed to the staff working with this category of inmates, as it is a
complex activity of high difficulty, which requires specific and innovative training
and approach by the prison staff. Thus, in order to emphasize the educational
approach and the rehabilitation of the minors and young inmates in conflict
with the law, a number of training sessions were developed, as follows: 5 training
sessions targeting the staff who works directly with these categories, for 60 civil
servants with special status (detention security and prison regime, social
reintegration and medical sectors) and 2 training sessions for the staff who use
the tool for assessing the re-offending risk of the minors and young persons
deprived of their liberty.
Para. 54 let. f) - Constant improvement of detention facilities
On this subject, we would like to specify that there are several Police’s Centres
for Detention and Preventive Arrest which are currently being modernised in
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