- 23 The CPT recommends that the information sheets be amended to include the right of access to a doctor. Further, the Committee calls upon the Greek authorities to ensure that forms setting out the rights of persons brought into police custody are systematically provided to such persons in the appropriate language, at the very outset of their custody. v. custody records 39. All police and border guard stations visited make use of a general custody register. In this register, the duty officer records the date and time of admission and discharge of a detained person, as well as all external movements, such as a hospital visit. Some of the custody registers consulted by the CPT’s delegation were not adequately kept. For instance, on 23 September 2009, a detained Russian national had not been registered despite being held at Soufli Border Guard station for about 10 hours at the time of the delegation’s visit. Further, on 22 September 2009 at Xanthi Police Station, the delegation met a man who said that he had been detained at Kavala Police Station for some time the day before. These statements were confirmed by detained persons at Kavala Police Station and at Xanthi Police Station. However, the custody register at Kavala Police Station does not make any reference to this man. In other cases, the custody register held inaccurate information, possibly deliberately so. For instance, at Serres Police Station, the custody register recorded that a detained Romanian national was sent to Serres hospital and returned on the same day, when in fact he had spent the period between 16 and 18 August 2009 in the hospital, allegedly after having been ill-treated by members of the Serres security police.34 40. The CPT considers that the fundamental guarantees of persons placed in police custody would be reinforced if a single and comprehensive custody record were to be kept for each of these persons. In this record would be entered all aspects of custody and all measures taken in connection with it (when and for what reason(s) the custodial measure was taken; when the person arrived on police premises; when he/she was informed of his/her rights; whether he/she showed signs of injury, health alert issues given with the consent of the detained person, etc.; in which cell(s) he/she was placed; when fed; when questioned; when he/she had contacts with and/or visits from close relatives, a lawyer, a doctor or a representatives of the consular services; when transferred; when brought before a prosecutor; when remanded or released, etc.). Further, for various matters (for example, the personal possessions or evidence of information on and exercise of fundamental rights), the detained person’s signature should be required and, where appropriate, its absence duly accounted for. This would make it possible to check more accurately whether detained persons had availed themselves of their rights, and would also protect police officers against false allegations. The records with these details should be kept at the location where the person concerned is detained and be accessible to the detained person’s lawyer. 34 This was corroborated by both the administrative and medical records which the medical members of the CPT’s delegation consulted at Serres Hospital and by two persons who had been detained at Serres Police Station at the same time as the Romanian national.