CHAPTER 03 Monitoring of Human Rights 3.1 Inspection of Police Stations The objective of inspection of police stations is to give priority on the part of the Commission to minimize illegal arrest and torture and to minimize delays in producing suspects to Courts. In addition to inspection of Police Stations the Commission inspects the Terrorist Investigation Division and the Criminal Investigation Division of the Police Department. The Commission through such inspections examines detention conditions and other issues faced by detainees and assure their safety while in custody. During these inspection matters relating to health of detainees, issues relating to their meeting with relatives and safety issues are addressed. In the year 2013, several incidents were reported during inspection of police stations such as, detentions without proper orders incidents of assault of detainees. Investigation Officers of the Commission took prompt action to launch investigations on such incidents. The Head-Office and the Regional Offices of the Commission carried out inspections of 432 Police Stations island wide, at least once a month. Sometimes, inspections were performed in the night. 3.2 Inspection of Conditions in the Welikada Remand Prison The Conditions of detainees of Welikada Prison was inspected by a monitoring team on 20.02.2013. The number of detainees on that particular day was 4057 and out of them, 2463 were sentenced prisoners while 1041 were suspects. Those who were condemned to death were 253 and out of them 250 were men while 3 were women. It was also noted that 141 of them had appealed and 27