- 22 d. information on rights 32. According to paragraph 3 (b) of Police Circular 4803/22/44, detained persons must be fully informed about all the rights to which they are entitled during the period of detention. In many police and border guard stations visited, an information leaflet detailing the rights of detained persons was available in various languages. The information sheet explicitly referred to the right of access to a lawyer and the right to inform a third person. However, this sheet still did not refer to the right of access to a doctor. The CPT has taken note that the Hellenic Police intends to update the information leaflets on detainees’ rights to include a right “on submission of a written complaint on bad detention conditions, ill-treatment, or other violations of detainees’ rights”13. This is a positive development. The information leaflets should also be amended to include the right of access to a doctor. However, in the course of the visit, a number of persons alleged that they had not been informed of their rights as from the outset of detention. The Committee calls upon the Greek authorities to take steps to ensure that all persons detained by the police - for whatever reason - are fully informed of their rights as from the very outset of deprivation of liberty (that is, from the moment when they are obliged to remain with the police). This should be ensured by provision of clear verbal information at the very outset, to be supplemented at the earliest opportunity (that is, immediately upon arrival at police premises) by provision of the above-mentioned information leaflet. e. conduct of interrogations 33. In its report on the 2005 visit, the CPT recommended that a Code of Conduct on interrogations be drawn up.14 Regrettably, no action was taken to implement this recommendation. It should be noted in this context that many of the allegations of ill-treatment received during the 2013 visit related to the time when persons are being interviewed by crime inspectors of the Security Departments. The existence of a code of conduct for police interviews would make it possible to consolidate the instruction received by police officers during their professional training. The code should particularly include the systematic notification to the detainee of the identity of the persons present during the interview (name and/or number), the systematic recording of the time at which the interview starts and ends, the authorised duration of an interview and rest periods or breaks as well as the place(s) where an interview can be conducted. 13 14 As contained in the communication of 17 June 2013 from the Greek authorities to the CPT. See the report on the CPT’s 2005 visit: CPT/Inf (2006) 41, paragraph 44.