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s 8J

Inspection of place of detention

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Part 1AACT National Preventive Mechanism
Division 1A.3Examination of treatment of detainees in places of detention

8J Inspection of place of detention

(1)

In examining the treatment of detainees in a place of detention, the NPM may, at any time, visit a place of detention to inspect the place of detention.

(2)

The NPM may, but need not, give the detaining authority for the place of detention notice of a visit.

(3)

The NPM may give notice of a visit by making a schedule of the dates on which it intends to visit a place of detention publicly available.

(4)

The NPM may, in visiting a place of detention, take into the place any equipment reasonably required to effectively carry out an inspection of the place.

Examples—equipment reasonably required

1 a recording device

2 a camera

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