FORGOTTEN Administratively detained irregular migrants and asylum seekers 3. The procedures followed by the competent authorities regarding administrative detention diverge from provisions laid down in the legislation and from the governmental declarations of February 17, 2015. In particular, we observed that: In the Hellenic Police Departments there are serious long-standing systemic problems: • Lack of an individualized approach based on the characteristics, the situation and the needs of foreign nationals who are under arrest • Lack of use of alternatives to detention • Systematic, unjustified detention of dubious legitimacy on the grounds of public order • Detention of individuals whose removal violates the principle of non-refoulement • Detention for a period longer than six months • Re-arrest for the purpose of return despite prolonged and ineffective previous detention • Detention of seriously ill people • Failure to take into account data that arise over the period of detention regarding the health status of detainees and extension of the detention of vulnerable persons • Lack of interpretation services, indispensable to the detainees in order to fully understand their legal status, the decisions that concern them and the documents they are asked to sign • Lack of free legal assistance • Lack of information regarding an imminent enforcement of forced return 6