- 14 21. As regards more particularly electric shocks, it is noteworthy that the most recent allegations referred to the use of a hand-held device (as distinct from electrodes on leads linked to a generator). The CPT's delegation met separately, on different days, two detainees at the Athens Police Headquarters who alleged that they had very recently received electric shocks via such a device. Their descriptions of the device - black, shaped like an electric razer, with two poles at one end were concordant. On examination by a medical member of the CPT 's delegation, the detainees were found to bear marks consistent with their allegations (on the forearm - the place where the device was said to have been applied - small reddish marks approximately 2 mm in length, some 2 to 3 cm apart). It should be added that both detainees also displayed contusions consistent with their allegations that they had been beaten, inter alia with a wooden stick. The CPT's delegation subsequently met a prisoner at Larissa Prison who alleged that he had received electric shocks on his nose, eyebrow, wrist and neck at Athens Police Headquarters some two months previously; his description of the device used was similar -albeit not identical - to that of the two detainees mentioned earlier. On examination by a medical member of the delegation, the prisoner was found to display on both the left wing of the nose and the left eyebrow a roughly square, scar-like mark inside of which were two small, parallel white impressions. At Thessaloniki Prison, the CPT's delegation interviewed separately five prisoners who alleged they had received electric shocks at Thessaloniki Police Headquarters during the previous 15 months. Two of the persons concerned (a man and a woman) described the device used to administer the shocks as a rod (black for one, off-white for the other) some 40-50 cm in length with two small points at one end. Apparently, the marks caused by this ill-treatment had subsequently healed. Among the other three persons, one was found on medical examination to display on the penis four reddish and slightly fibrous marks, 2 to 4 mm in length. He stated that these were the scars of burns, received from shocks delivered via an electrode on a lead some twelve months previously. 22. Reference should also be made to various items discovered by the CPT's delegation in the course of visits to the Thessaloniki Police Headquarters. In the course of its first visit, the delegation found in the different offices a variety of wooden sticks and batons as well as a baseball bat. Police officers present offered a number of conflicting explanations for the presence of these objects. By the time of the delegation's second visit two days later, all the above-mentioned items had disappeared, a situation for which once again different reasons were proffered. In the course of the second visit, the delegation requested to inspect the contents of various lockers, some of which had to be forced open given the unavailability of the keys. However, the delegation's request to have opened a padlocked locker used by one particular police officer (who had been identified to the delegation as someone who had inflicted electric shocks on detainees) met with a firm refusal. The officer concerned was apparently on leave and not contactable, and the Director of the Headquarters' Security Department stated that he was not prepared to open the locker in the officer's absence. As a result, the delegation phoned the liaison officer appointed by the Ministry of Public Order, who authorised the opening of the locker. The locker was found to contain a range of objects and, in particular, a 29 cm long black plastic rod equipped with two small electrodes at one end. The pressing of a button in the middle of the rod resulted in a spark passing between the electrodes. Shortly after the discovery of this object, the police officer to whom the locker belonged arrived at the Headquarters and was interviewed by the delegation.