- 13 21. By letter dated 8 February 2011 from the head of the Police Directorate of Alexandroupolis, the Greek authorities responded to the immediate observations made by the CPT’s delegation in respect of Feres, Soufli and Tychero Police and Border Guard Stations, stating that:  the contracts of medical personnel had expired at the end of 2010 and new ones were pending;  all necessary measures were taken to transfer remanded criminal suspects to a prison and to place unaccompanied minors in Social Welfare Institutes (which were under the responsibility of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare);  Feres police station could not be renovated as there was no facility to which the detained persons could be transferred;  the contract for food had been signed by the former prefectural authorities so the Police Directorate could not know whether the meals met the minimum nutritional requirements;  hygiene products had ceased to be distributed since October 2010 due to the financial problems faced by the former prefectural authorities of Evros;  efforts were continually being made to reduce the number of persons held in these facilities. The only aspect of the immediate observations in respect of these facilities which the authorities have implemented concerns the provision of a hot drink every day during winter months. In respect of all the other - more fundamental - requests, the Greek authorities are in effect stating they are powerless to act. This attempt to avoid responsibility is totally unacceptable considering, in the CPT’s view, the inhuman and degrading conditions of detention that the irregular migrants have to endure in the above-mentioned facilities. The CPT calls upon the Greek authorities to take the necessary steps to ensure that the specific measures enumerated in the immediate observations (see paragraph 9) are implemented in these three police and border guard stations. 22. The Filakio Special holding facility is a purpose-built establishment. It consists of a row of six large cells, each with floor to ceiling bars along the front and back. A seventh room used for accommodating women is located near the control room along a different corridor. Each cell consists of a number of sets of bunk beds and an adjoining sanitary facility. At the time of the visit, the Filakio facility was accommodating 488 persons, which was far above its already inflated official capacity of 374. The inmate population included 110 juveniles (most of whom were unaccompanied minors) and ten families. Four young children were less than six years old (including a baby of eight months), three of whom had been held for over four weeks at the time of the visit. Among the juveniles, there were 33 children between the ages of 12 and 14 years, most of whom had been detained in Filakio for more than two months.