- 37 The CPT reiterates that the Greek authorities stop detaining people for more than a few hours in the two rooms on the third floor of Kypseli Police Station. Further, the holding cell on the third floor of Agios Panteleimonas Police Station should not be used until such time as it has been renovated, including the provision of lighting. 59. Similarly, the material conditions in the police stations that the CPT’s delegation visited outside the regions of Attica were generally very poor. For example: i. At Monasteriou General Police Headquarters in Thessaloniki, the 20 cells and the sanitary areas of the detention facility on the third floor were not cleaned on a regular basis. Detained persons complained about the lack of natural light and ventilation in the cells and that they were not provided with hygiene and cleaning products. The blankets were dusty and dirty. Remand prisoners continued to be held there for up to two months, without any access to outdoor exercise. Equally, the four cells and the sanitary facilities in the detention area on the first floor at Demokratias Police Station were not clean, were insufficiently ventilated and lacked appropriate access to natural light and adequate artificial lighting. The two small cells in the detention area on the basement of Sindos Police Station were dirty and the semipartitioned sanitation cells were in a dilapidated state. ii. The detention facility at Heraklion Regional Police Headquarters on Crete consisted of one large cell for 10 persons and seven cells, each of which had an official capacity of six persons. In addition, there was a separate detention area for women, which had two cells for up to four persons each, and another one for juveniles, also with two cells that could hold up to four persons each. At the time of the visit, the detention facility was holding five criminal suspects and 27 irregular migrants, of whom two had been held for more than 50 days. The cells were generally filthy; many mattresses were torn and blankets dirty. Detained persons were neither provided hygiene products nor granted access to outdoor exercise, even though there was a designated outdoor exercise area which had a football pitch surrounded by a fence with direct access to the detention area. iii. Tripoli Police Station had four cells and, on the day of the visit, was holding 14 foreign nationals and two Greeks. The cells were artificially lit and also had some natural light coming in from the corridor. Some mattresses were torn, the blankets filthy and the delegation noted that not all detained persons had been provided with a blanket.42 The delegation also noted a cage-like holding cell with three out of four walls made of a mesh grille, which measured some 4m² and contained two chairs. According to the officer on duty, this cage was only used to hold people for periods of up to three hours. 42 Two different groups of detainees informed the delegation that a detained person had attempted to hang himself with his t-shirt from the grille bars at the front of his cell, only a few days prior to the delegation’s visit, and that he had been transferred to the Amydgaleza Pre-Departure Centre the day after his attempted suicide. The police officer on duty denied that this prisoner had attempted to hang himself.