2018 | Recommendations: - To the Director of the Prison Department: to assess the possibility of adapting the Police School's programme on the use of violence to the needs of supervision of detainees and to provide officers with an electronic proficiency test, while taking into account the recommendations of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Office on Drugs and Crime on the use of force. To ensure training of health care workers in detention institutions on how to identify potential ill-treatment of detainees by officers, how to interview a person who may have been ill-treated, and how to record a medical examination, the statements of the examinee relevant to the medical examination and the conclusion on how much the person's statements correspond to the examination results. To ensure that in all detention institutions, the conclusion of an official investigation into the use of violence would assess whether the principle of proportionality enshrined in the TKDS was applied when using force (i.e. applied only to the extent necessary to perform the duty, adequately to the circumstances, and proportionate to the threat, with regard to the nature of the offence, intensity and individual characteristics of the offender), also that the account of the person, against whom violence was used, on the use of force or account of the circumstances of their injuries, is assessed.
- To the Director of Lukiškės Remand Prison: to implement measures to ensure that the medical examination report of an injured person in all cases contains the person's statements on how they suffered the injury, and an assessment (as far as possible) of whether the statements correspond to the results of the medical examination.
- To the Director of Prison Hospital: to implement measures to ensure that the medical examination report of an injured person in all cases contains the person's statements on how they suffered the injury, and an assessment (as far as possible) of whether the statements correspond to the results of the medical examination. | Report details |
2023 | The Seimas Ombudsperson expresses her concern about the inactivity of <...> officers in ensuring the protection of the rights and freedoms of convicts <...>. It should be noted that such a situation, when <...> officers do not fulfil their positive duties to respond effectively to a disturbance of personal health while the officers are performing their functions, is not compatible with the duties of the officers of the punishment enforcement system to respect, protect human dignity, ensure and protect human rights and freedoms, protect persons from threat to their health and/or life, causes reasonable doubts about the proportionality of the physical force used by the officers of <…> against the Applicant and may be
considered a violation of Article 3 of the Convention. For this reason, it is recommended that the director of the [Lithuanian Prison Service] take measures so that in the future <…> officers immediately respond to information about injuries to a person under their supervision and take active steps to determine whether the physical violence used against the person was really necessary and whether the principle of proportionality was not violated. | Report details |