C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care

18.08. Detainees are not handcuffed or otherwise restrained during medical or dental examinations or administrative or judicial hearings.

18. Means of Restraint,C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care

18.09. Details of all methods of restraint used are carefully documented on individual case files and in a central register.

18. Means of Restraint,C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care

18.10. Use of methods of restraint are only authorised at the highest levels.

18. Means of Restraint,C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care

18.11. Use of restraint is carefully documented and monitored and detainees are medically examined prior to use of restraint and as soon as possible after the restraint is removed.

18. Means of Restraint,C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care

18.12. Any use of chemical restraint is medically authorised, closely monitored and never used prior to interviews or hearings.

18. Means of Restraint,C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care

18.01. The use of any instruments or methods of restraint are explicitly governed by law and regulation, which expressly prohibit their use against children, except in very limited circumstances.

18. Means of Restraint,C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care

18.02. Methods of restraint are only used if justified by a risk assessment on purely medical criteria, as a last resort, and only for as long as is strictly necessary.

18. Means of Restraint,C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care

18.04. Methods of restraint are never used or threatened as a punishment.

18. Means of Restraint,C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care

18.05. Instruments of restraint are never used on women during labour, during birth, and immediately after birth.

18. Means of Restraint,C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care

18.03. A protocol for use of means of restraint limits use to a. prevent unlawful escape during transfer, b. medical grounds, c. prevent harm, self-harm, property damage.

18. Means of Restraint,C. Treatment and Duty of Protection and Care