- 15 The absence of specific facilities for female detainees creates a particularly hazardous situation for detained women in terms of safety, privacy and hygiene; immediate measures should be taken by the Greek authorities to address this problem. 31. Hardly any of the establishments visited by the delegation were equipped with an outdoor exercise area, not even the recently constructed Monasteriou Security Police Detention Facility (in operation since 2004). Further, in those establishments which did possess such an area (Feres Border Guard Station and Kypseli Police Station), outdoor exercise was in practice offered only rarely, if at all. 32. Sanitary installations were in most cases found to be filthy and often in a dilapidated state (e.g. at Exarhia Police Station in Athens and Tichero Border Guard Station in the Orestiada prefecture). In many establishments, only some of the toilets and showers in the detention area were functioning at the time of the visit. As regards hygienic items, practice differed from establishment to establishment. In some police and border guard stations, small quantities of soap and washing powder would be issued to detained persons, in others only soap. Similarly, toilet paper was not issued on a systematic basis. Other hygienic items, such as shampoo, toothbrush and –paste as well as shaving utensils generally had to be acquired by the detained persons themselves. 33. Further, the CPT’s delegation observed once again that in the majority of police and border guard establishments visited, there were no call bells in the detention area. 34. The deficiencies observed by the CPT’s delegation partly stem from the fact that the detention areas of police and border guard establishments were clearly designed with short-term detention in mind. The reality observed by the CPT’s delegation is that many detained persons, in particular irregular migrants, would remain locked up under such conditions for months on end. The situation observed could in some cases, such as in Xanthi Police and Border Guard Station, amount to inhuman or degrading treatment.