16 c.-Paragraph 76: Request for furnishing information: «Measure-taking to prevent mistreatment: Furthermore, within the expressed will of the Political and Natural Leadership for zero tolerance to matters of human rights violation, orders have been issued and transmitted to all the Services involved in such cases, whereby the Hellenic Police staff is reminded of the main provisions from which the requirement of life protection, respect of human dignity, prevention of discrimination or torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment derives in relation to the matter of citizen rights safeguarding and the general behaviour of police officers towards the citizens, pointing out to them that these fundamental principles are a matter of primary significance to the Hellenic Police Headquarters. At the same time, it is especially noted that if any breaching of these principles and values is found via an administrative investigation, strict disciplinary sanctions will be imposed as provided for in the effective disciplinary law. It has also been noted that in case of any information containing serious indications of possible mistreatment of a person, the administration should take effective action, according to the provisions of the P.D. 120/2008 on the «Disciplinary Law on the Police Staff», to investigate and to attribute the respective disciplinary sanctions, depending on the importance of the act, against the liable persons, to avoid any sense of impunity. 2.-Reply to the Committee's direct notes-recommendations/requests for furnishing information: a.-Legal guarantees against mistreatment: Paragraphs 77-78: Requests of the Committee to the Hellenic Authorities for taking the necessary measures to ensure that the aliens whose freedom is deprived by the Police, according to the legislation on aliens, are granted the right to inform their family in case of detention to access to a lawyer and to a doctor and that they are in the position to exercise those rights from the beginning of the deprivation of their freedom. As regards the rights of inmates to inform a close relative etc», there is no communication barrier, on the contrary, the Authorities facilitate the communication, in compliance with the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code, of the Corrective Code and of the confidentiality of the conversations. In particular, the administrative inmate aliens are entitled to accept visits from relatives up to second degree, whether full-blood or half-blood. If there are not such persons, they are allowed to accept visit from another relative or friend, who have previously declared to the prison guard.

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