Between the "European Rules" project for minors breaking laws, currently debated by the Ministers’ Committee of the Council of Europe, and the rules developed by the Committee for the Prevention of Torture and inhuman or degrading treatments or pains (CPT it has the task of examining the treatments undergone by the people with no personal freedom; it carries out its task by visiting prisons, minor detention centres, police stations, centres for temporary residence of immigrants, and psychiatric hospitals), "there is a high level of consonance. However, the centre for temporary residence believes that the question of the particular vulnerability of minors detained by the police should be faced in a more concrete way". It is one of the instructions included in the 18th general report made known by the centre of temporary residence yesterday. The report includes details on the 20 visits carried out in the last twelve months. The Centre declared its intention to "make a thorough investigation on the use of electroshock equipment". The Centre stated that the equipment "was initially presented as non-lethal alternative to situations in which the use of force was necessary, but today it is used" by the police "and in the context of detention", also "under circumstances not justifying its use".
