- 29 Paragraph 61: Recommendation to the Greek authorities to ensure that, in all holding facilities:  all detainees are provided with full information, in a language they understand, on their legal situation and interpretation services are made available if required;  all detainees are offered a bed or plinth, mattresses, blanket and bedding, all clean and regularly cleaned and disinfected;  all detainees are offered at least one hour of outdoor exercise a day;  all detainees have access to their personal belongings, including mobile phones;  each facility has a common association room, equipped with a television and reading material; a programme of activities (educational, recreational and vocational) is developed;  all detainees are provided with sufficient quantities of food, water, personal hygiene and cleaning products, and medication, all free of charge;  regular maintenance work and disinfection is carried out and sufficient funding is made available to this end. The Ministry of Interior/Sector of Citizen Protection and the Hellenic Police Headquarters assign great importance to protecting and safeguarding the rights of persons detained at police agencies, by ensuring the necessary health and safety rules for the stay of all detainees (women and men) at police holding facilities, and by ensuring compliance therewith by all police agencies which, on a daily basis, manage a large number of detainees either during guarding or during their transfer to and from courts, detention facilities etc. Observance of all rules and safety regulations for detention facilities and their construction according to standards are necessary to ensure holding conditions meeting the requirements of human dignity and our culture, eliminate the chance of escaping, self-inflicted injuries etc. and ensure the protection of police agencies staff who guard the detainees. To this end, the necessary actions have been taken to address problems relating to shortages of holding areas at the facilities of the Hellenic Police and orders have been issued to all our regional agencies, comprising instructions-commands to strictly abide with their obligations, as stemming from applicable provisions and international conventions. On the basis of our constant effort to safeguard human rights, improve the building infrastructures and ensure healthy living conditions and protection of detainees, a Technical Description of the holding areas has been made, based on which holding areas of police agencies are constructed or reconstructed, taking into consideration, inter alia, the CPT guidelines. In this context, projects are implemented through the Public Investment Programme (PIP) or through public-private partnerships (PPPs) for the construction of new modern buildings with appropriate holding facilities to fully meet both the work requirements of the staff and the citizens' requirements, and to provide humane holding conditions to detainees in such agencies. We are also monitoring this matter and intervene by specific commands-instructions when shortages or dysfunctions are noted, to immediately improve existing conditions. In particular, aiming to ensure the improvement of detention conditions and the protection of the health of detainees and the Hellenic Police agencies staff, specific commands and instructions have been given, inter alia, for the following matters: ▪ ensuring the necessary conditions of health (personal hygiene and cleanness of detainees) and safety at detention facilities;