In our yard they recently arrested a man who, as it turned out, was a former authority and killed several people in a relatively short time. We knew him as a completely decent elderly man and were quite shocked when they told us about his “merits.”
This is a dangerous repeat offender who must be protected from society until a court decision. He will have to stay in a temporary detention center for several days. In this article, I decided not to talk about this authoritative old man. I personally was more interested in the IVS. In this article I will answer the following questions:
- What kind of temporary detention facility is this in the police?
- Legal period of detention in a pre-trial detention center.
- Rules for staying in a temporary detention facility.
- Basic requirements for internal regulations.
Main purpose of the insulator
The temporary detention facility, as a police institution, is required to protect dangerous criminals from society.
To determine the perpetrators to prison, a special official decision is required. Before receiving it, the suspect must be under reliable escort. The offender must not cause harm and must not be able to escape. For this purpose, a modern insulator is needed.
Below you will find information about what a temporary detention facility is, what rules exist for staying in it, who enters the temporary detention facility, and how to deliver food parcels to prisoners.
Aircraft insulators - general concepts
As mentioned above, temporary detention centers hold criminals who are awaiting sentencing and punishment. In addition to those under investigation, the isolation wards also house the following categories of citizens:
- People transferred from a pre-trial detention center for the period of investigation, if it is not possible to transport the convicted person due to the considerable distance.
- Persons serving the common 15-day sentence.
Some people confuse a temporary detention facility with a pre-trial detention center. What they have in common is that these places contain those people who are considered dangerous to society.
The differences between institutions lie in the conditions of detention of criminals and in some design features:
- The temporary detention center looks like several cells, and they are located directly at the police station.
- A pre-trial detention center is a separate building that simply belongs to the law enforcement system.
- In temporary detention centers there are people suspected of committing a particular crime, that is, not taken into custody for a time.
- Subjects under investigation and convicted in unfinished cases are sent to pre-trial detention centers.
❌ What absolutely cannot be transferred
A prisoner in a pre-trial detention center is strictly prohibited from transmitting:
- Mobile phones, tablets, cameras, audio equipment, etc.
- Cards and other gambling games.
- Any substances in the format of aerosol cans.
- Food products in metal and glass containers.
- Products that require heat treatment.
- Food products with a shelf life of no more than 72 hours.
- Food products that do not have an expiration date indicated or have expired.
- Yeast.
- Alcohol.
- Camouflage-colored clothing.
- Materials containing pornography.
- Weapon.
- Money.
- Jewelry.
- Wristwatches and office equipment.
- Perfume alcohol-containing liquids.
- Psychotropic substances.
Period of legal stay in a temporary detention facility
For the first time, a person can be placed in a pre-trial detention center for two days, no more. Time begins to count immediately after the defendant is delivered to the investigator. At the end of this period, law enforcement authorities must take one of the following actions:
- The official imposition of punishment is arrest or redirection to a pre-trial detention center.
- Extension of preliminary isolation for three days, but with the condition that the total time of stay does not exceed 120 hours.
- Release of the defendant.
All of the above decisions are made exclusively by the court.
The maximum permissible period of stay of a convicted person in a temporary detention facility, previously transferred from a pre-trial detention center, should not be more than 10 days in one reporting month.
His temporary residence in the isolation ward was allowed for 20 days. An important condition is the continuity of the term and its automatic distribution over two full months.
To achieve this goal, two types of translation are issued:
- The first time at the end of each month. The last day of redirection must fully correspond to the last calendar day of the reporting month.
- The second is carried out immediately after the first. And the first day of this operation must completely correspond to the first day of the next month.
What is a temporary detention facility?
Attention! The temporary detention center, which exists within the structure of the relevant department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is designed to solve the following tasks:
- isolation from society of a person who has become dangerous as a result of committing a criminal offense;
- detention of citizens for committing administrative offenses when such a penalty is determined by the court.
Individuals who are detained as suspects by investigators and inquiry workers are placed in temporary detention facilities. After a preventive measure in the form of detention is chosen against such persons, they are transferred to pre-trial detention centers that are subordinate to the penitentiary service.
Thus, temporary detention centers are intended to contain persons who are detained on time and immediately after the commission of a crime. At the same time, transferring them to a pre-trial detention center until a preventive measure is chosen is prohibited.
Basic conditions and rules of residence
Staying in a temporary detention facility is similar to being in prison for a person under investigation:
- Those arrested live exclusively in cells.
- There are only beds in the rooms.
- There is a complete lack of sanitary facilities.
- Due to the relatively short stay in the temporary detention facility, walks are organized here only if special premises are available.
- Detainees travel exclusively with an escort.
- At night, the cells are blessed.
Conditions for prisoners are quite harsh. But this is a necessary measure aimed at preventing the escape of prisoners and collusion between them.
General content standards
At the moment, the temporary detention cells are quite overcrowded. The reason is a significant limitation in the total number of places. A particularly strong influx of prisoners is observed on holidays and weekends.
IVS vary in size. Quite large institutions are located in separately constructed structures or in the basements of special buildings. Such insulators are equipped according to all the rules. They contain objects:
- Optimal number of beds, table and seats.
- Special accessories for personal hygiene.
- Cabinets for long-term storage of things and washing basins.
- Night and regular daylight lighting devices.
- Ventilation of all types.
- Special containers with clean drinking water.
- Buttons for quickly calling a guard.
There are certain rules for keeping prisoners here. In particular, they are given such things as:
- Sanitary paper.
- Soap for washing and washing clothes.
- Cleaning products.
- Interesting games.
- Magazines and newspapers.
Prosecutor's supervision carefully monitors compliance with the requirements and rules of residence in temporary detention centers.
How do arrested persons enter the temporary detention facility?
Prisoners are admitted to temporary detention centers almost continuously. Date, day of week and time usually do not matter. An initial examination of the prisoner is mandatory. His identity is clarified, documents are checked and basic evidence is taken.
If the prisoner has injuries or illnesses, a special report is drawn up. If necessary, the injured person is sent to the hospital. Other mandatory procedures carried out upon admission include:
- Taking fingerprints.
- Individual inspection.
- Taking photos.
During a personal inspection, law enforcement officers have the right to carry out the following actions:
- Shoe analysis.
- Ripping clothes.
- Inspection of bodily openings.
- Checking medical bandages and prostheses.
The applicant’s belongings are thoroughly disinfected, and the person himself goes to the bathhouse. If a suspect or convict is sick with lice, he is sent for special treatment.
The procedure for placement in an isolation ward
Citizens are admitted to the temporary detention center around the clock. This is done by law enforcement officers - the detention center duty officer or the 24-hour police officer on duty.
When a suspect is admitted, the detention center staff checks the documents that constitute the basis for placing this person in a temporary detention facility, interrogates the detainee, records his testimony and compares it with what is written in the above-mentioned documents.
Such documents may be either a protocol of detention, or a decision of the prosecutor or judicial authorities to place the person in custody.
In addition, the personal documents of the suspect, if any, are checked. If the detainee has any bodily injuries, law enforcement officers draw up a special report on their presence.
This document must be signed by the temporary detention facility duty officer, the person who delivered the suspect to the temporary detention facility, and directly by the detainee himself. The latter is also given a copy of this act.
If the physical impairment of the detainee is serious enough, then he cannot be placed in an isolation ward and is taken to the hospital.
When women with children are admitted to the detention center, birth certificates of the children must be presented, which indicate the blood relationship between mother and child, or a special statement drawn up by the interrogating officer, prosecutor or judge, which states that the woman with children is admitted to the temporary detention facility.
Persons placed in isolation are subject to a search, photographing and fingerprinting. In addition, during the first day of stay in the temporary detention facility, all prisoners must undergo sanitary and hygienic treatment in the shower or bathhouse available on the territory of the detention center. Items of clothing are disinfected. After these procedures, detainees receive bed linen.
Regime in the temporary detention center
The majority of time is spent by convicts indoors. You can leave them for the following reasons:
- Walks through a special area. Duration is 1 hour for adults and 2 hours for teenagers.
- Negotiations with lawyers. They can be organized daily, as needed.
- Communication with loved ones after obtaining a special permit. Such meetings are organized twice in one month for three hours.
- Hygiene procedures – once a week.
- Conducting special investigative operations. They are necessary for conducting a case and passing a verdict.
- Teenagers have the right to attend special classes to complete the required school curriculum.
Distribution of criminals by category
There are several rules for keeping certain individuals. In a temporary detention facility, the following categories of convicts cannot be housed in the same cell at the same time:
- People of different sexes.
- Teenagers and adults.
- Simple violators and former employees of government agencies.
- First-time arrestees and repeat offenders.
- Suspects and those already sentenced.
- Participants in the same crime.
- Suspects of several different offenses are being held separately.
If the mother of an infant is taken to the temporary detention facility, he may be placed with her. This requires an official decision of the prosecutor and a documented fact of relationship. These women are kept in separate cells and given cots and special hygiene products.
Inner order rules
The temporary detention center establishes a strict daily routine, which must be observed by all persons detained there.
It includes:
- a daily one-hour walk for adults and a two-hour walk for minors. Special courtyards are used for this;
- the possibility of meetings with a lawyer, the duration of which cannot exceed two hours a day;
- visits with family members and other relatives if the issue is resolved positively by the investigator, prosecutor or court. Their duration cannot exceed 3 hours twice a month;
- visiting a bathhouse or taking a shower once a week;
- removal from the cell for the duration of investigative actions;
- for minors of school age, training with teachers is provided if this is necessary;
- sending and receiving postal correspondence.
If the specified conditions of detention are not met, the detained or arrested person has the right to file a complaint.
Attention! Violation of the content rules is expressed in:
- insulting other persons who are in custody or detained;
- an attempt to attack a prison worker;
- receipt or storage of alcohol-containing products, narcotic drugs;
- receiving or storing other items prohibited for transfer;
- repeated violation of other conditions of detention.
The following measures of influence may be applied to those detained and arrested:
- placement in a punishment cell;
- deprivation of the right to correspondence;
- deprivation of the right to visit relatives;
- deprivation of board games and periodicals.
Rules for sending and receiving parcels
To receive personal or household items, the temporary detention center provides the opportunity to transfer parcels. These operations are carried out exclusively in accordance with certain rules.
Each person arrested has the opportunity to receive more than one parcel, the main thing is that the total weight does not exceed 30 kg. This restriction does not apply to three categories of people:
- Pregnant women and mothers of babies.
- Teenagers who have not reached the age of majority.
- Persons with serious illnesses. This must be confirmed by a special medical certificate.
Parcels must not contain items prohibited by law.
Some people shouldn't accept packages at all. These are the following categories of persons:
- Redirected to a punishment cell for misconduct and violation of established rules.
- Those on a date or meeting with personal lawyers.
- Persons convicted of trafficking in prohibited items.
Parcels are received from relatives and friends in a special room, where they are carefully inspected and weighed.
