Applying psychological and physical violence on detainees, inadequate services of state barristers, poor detention conditions and not informing relatives about the arrested people – are but some of the drawbacks the ombudsmen found with the law-enforcing entities. The findings were included into a report of the Human Rights Center from Moldova (CpDOM) on the activity of the National Mechanism on Preventing Torture in 2008 and the first quarter of 2009, Info-Prim Neo reports. The report was launched at a round table, in the wake of the UN Day on supporting torture victims, marked on June 26. The ombudsmen and representatives of NGOs compiled the report after paying fact-finding visits to jails. “Often the detainees say they were ill-treated by police to recognize their guilt for infractions they committed or not. We found, for instance, that detainees' requests on the police to call for a doctor are not met,” said chief ombudsman Anatolie Munteanu. The findings were called by the representative of the Interior Ministry at the round table, Veaceslav Iurcec, as a view of CpDOM. “The Ministry has achieved many substantial changes. Many aspects of the visits to the jails are not perceived objectively. They ground only on the law on ombudsmen, but we have internal rules,” the officer said. Referring to the April 7 arrests and the events that followed, Anatolie Munteanu has said most of the detained people were interrogated without having a lawyer, in poor conditions. “I am certain torture in remand centers is not allowed, since they are daily visited by prosecutors and barristers,” Veaceslav Iurcec said. He says all the objections to the police's work are taken into account “in order to undertake adequate measures.” Ludmila Popovici, the director of the Medical Center rehabilitating torture victims “Memoria”, opines that using the common language, be it of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), be it of the international instruments coming to help Moldova in preventing torture, would contribute to the development of a constructive dialogue between society and the state. “Instead of paying a lot of damages after Moldova is condemned by the ECHR, we'd better think what we do. The authorities have big shortcomings in enforcing some laws. Control mechanisms do not require too big investments, and the shortage of money is not an adequate excuse,” Ludmila Popovici said. She showed herself confident most of the cases to reach the ECHR after the April events, will be won by the plaintiffs. “I see no justification of the violence on the part of the law-enforcing entities happening in April. The very violent behavior and the intimidation of the young detainees were so obvious, as the boys we treated told us about being humiliated apart from being beaten,” Ludmila Popovici said. CpDOM has got a hotline {0 8001 2222} , the citizens can dial and report cases of torture. The Report on the National Mechanism on Preventing Torture has been compiled with the support of the OSCE mission to Moldova.