E/CN.4/2004/56/Add.3 page 35 normes internationales et ont contribué à l’identification des solutions pour améliorer l’activité de la police. Le Ministère de l’administration et de l’intérieur attend aussi le rapport d’OADA suite à la visite effectuée entre le 1er juillet et le 1er août 2003 dans le département de Brasov. 207. The Government reported that the main observation formulated by the CPT experts who visited Romanian penitentiaries referred to the overpopulation and the medical services. The Government outlined the following measures, which were taken in the framework of the reform process of the prison system: modernization of the five existing prison hospitals and the establishment of the Rahova Prison Hospital, with a specialization in surgery, which will offer high-level medical care; the organization of a system to fill vacant positions for medical staff in the system; with regard to the overcrowding of the penitentiaries, measures have been taken to build new detention units and to rehabilitate and modernize existing ones by: dividing the spaces more adequately, creating supplementary utilities within the detention space and arranging and creating proper sanitary facilities; creating an organizational framework for the classification and reclassification of convicts, as well as for punishments; experimenting with four separate prison regimes, notably the semi-open and open regimes; creating various opportunities and facilities for the convicts, as well as conditions for their socio-behavioural rehabilitation; encouraging contact with the family by diversifying the ways visits are granted; providing the unlimited right to non-censored correspondence; providing the right to make telephone calls; expanding the limits for convicts’ rights to visits, packages, cigarettes and other items; creating places in all prisons for the sale of food, hygienic products and stationery products for the convicts; implementing a new strategy for working with minors in the re-education centres and in the juvenile and youth prison; the appointment, in the framework of the cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Justice of Romania and the Ministry of Justice of France for the year 2002, of a French magistrate to assist the Romanian experts in creating a specialized judicial system for minors; and elaborating a draft project, which will enter into force on 1 September 2004, concerning the execution of punishments that involve confinement, and the status of civil servants in the prison administration. 208. Recommendation (e) stated: Legislation should be amended to place pre-trial detention centres under the authority of the Ministry of Justice. 209. According to the information received from the Government, the draft project for the modification of the Romanian Constitution provides that the measure of “preventive arrest” can be ordered and extended only by a judge. The exclusive competence of the judge in this matter represents an important guarantee for the respect of the right not to be arbitrarily deprived of one’s freedom. It is also stipulated that the Judicial Police will be subordinate to the Prosecutor’s Office, for better coordination of the criminal investigation procedure. 210. Recommandation f) dit: L’enregistrement vidéo et audio de la procédure suivie dans les locaux d’interrogatoire de la police devrait être envisagé. 211. Le gouvernement a indiqué que le programme de réhabilitation du patrimoine de la Direction générale de police de Bucarest continuait (avec la modernisation de 14 stations de police) et malgré le fait que les restrictions budgétaires ne permettent pas encore l’enregistrement audio et vidéo des enquêtes policières.