CAT/OP/PRT/1 Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Implementation of the Optional Protocol: the national preventive mechanism ............................ 3 III. Overarching issues ........................................................................................................................ 7 A. Institutional framework......................................................................................................... 7 B. Complaints mechanisms ....................................................................................................... 9 Prevention of torture and ill-treatment .......................................................................................... 10 A. Police .................................................................................................................................... 10 B. Prisons .................................................................................................................................. 10 C. Psychiatric care ..................................................................................................................... 11 Police practice and procedure........................................................................................................ 11 A. Fundamental safeguards during the initial stage of detention ............................................... 11 B. Material conditions of detention at police stations ............................................................... 12 Prisons ........................................................................................................................................... 12 A. Material conditions of detention in prisons........................................................................... 12 B. Discipline .............................................................................................................................. 13 Health care .................................................................................................................................... 14 A. Generic observations and concerns ....................................................................................... 14 B. Medical screening and examination...................................................................................... 15 C. Prisons .................................................................................................................................. 16 D. Forensic units ........................................................................................................................ 17 E. Psychiatric units .................................................................................................................... 17 Next steps ...................................................................................................................................... 18 I. List of places of deprivation of liberty visited by the Subcommittee ............................................ 20 II Places of deprivation of liberty visited jointly by the national preventive mechanism and the Subcommittee ................................................................................................................... 21 List of government officials and other persons with whom the Subcommittee met ..................... 22 IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. Annexes III 2

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