CAT: A Study on Bangladesh Compliance The proposed Police Ordinance also formulated a ‘Code of Conduct’ for the members of police service for the first. This Code sets the human rights standard to be upheld while conducting arrest, search, detention or interrogation. Any deviation from this standard is to be considered as a departmental and in some cases, penal offence. This measure promises to curb the extent of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment during interrogation. However, there is no clear indication that this proposed legislation will be enacted in the near future. Prison and Detention Centre Conditions: According to Odhikar, 46 persons died in prison and 109 persons died in the custody of police and other security forces in 2010 alone. Apart from directly inflicted torture on inmates, prison conditions at times appear life threatening due to overcrowding, inadequate facilities, and lack of proper sanitation. According to the government, the existing prison population in 2010 was nearly 89,650, or more than over 200 percent of the official prison capacity of 29,240. In 1981, the country’s prisons had a capacity for housing 16,381 inmates while the number of prisoners was 20,301. But since then, the number of prisoners has increased steadily, though the capacity of the prisons to accommodate the increased number of prisoners hardly changed. During the period between 2001 and 2008, the capacity in 67 prisons increased from 23,942 to 27, 451 while the number of prisoners 47