FORGOTTEN Administratively detained irregular migrants and asylum seekers The First Reception Service consists of the Central Service and the Regional Reception Services which are: (a) First Reception and Identification Centers, (b) First Reception Mobile Units, (c) Open Temporary Reception Structures for third country nationals or stateless persons who have requested international protection, (d) Open Temporary Accommodation Facilities. Reception and identification procedures are equivalent to those stipulated by Article 7 of Law 3907/2011 and include the registration of personal data, fingerprinting and recording of the relevant data, the verification of identity and nationality, medical examinations and provision of any necessary medical care and psycho-social support, information on the rights and obligations, care for those belonging to vulnerable groups, reference to the competent service of those who wish to apply for international protection, reference of the persons who did not apply for asylum and of those whose application for international protection has been rejected during their stay in the First Reception and Identification Center to the services competent for including them under deportation, return or readmission procedures. ii. Findings In relation to the first reception procedures, until early April 2016, when Law 4375/2016 entered into force, the establishment and operation of the First Reception Service was provided by Law 3907/2011. Despite the fact that the legal framework stipulated the establishment of First Reception Centers across the country since 2011, until recently only one First Reception Center in Orestias was in operation. As a result, it was the Hellenic Police that carried the burden of managing third country nationals entering or staying in the country without legal formalities. The competent services of the Hellenic Police (Aliens’ Divisions, Police Directorates) do not have staff qualified to carry out the first reception procedures. But even when contracts are signed with qualified staff or NGOs for the provisions of medical and psychosocial support, these services are not used for the initial assessment of the situation and needs of each arrested person and the possible use of alternatives to detention or the referral to other services but they are provided after a detention and return decision has been issued. At the same time, the system which is adopted by the Hellenic Police for more than a decade is impersonal and standardized. The service that carries out the arrest, which does not have any specifically trained staff or interpreter, sends the registration file to the Aliens’ 40