5.1.1 Permanent positions and external staff In July 2016, a new assistant joined the ranks of the institution's reception and executive secretariat department and enabled the work of one administrative assistant – who had previously had several different duties to fulfil – to be focused on the operational organisation of missions and supervision of reports. Two inspectors resigned from their posts in 2016: in November, a woman, a public health general practitioner, who left to take on other roles, and, at the end of the year, a prison commandant who exercised his pension entitlements. The job left vacant in November was filled as of December by a medical public health inspector, who had previously been on secondment to the corps of sub-prefects. The other job, which became vacant on 31 December 2016, will be filled in 2017. One psychiatric hospital practitioner under a reimbursed hiring-out agreement chose to call time on this full-time collaboration arrangement with the Chief inspector of places of deprivation of liberty to become an external inspector. The team of external inspectors was particularly expanded in 2016: eleven recruitments were made to replace three departures for personal reasons. Precedence was given to recruiting professionals from the medical sphere: two former psychiatric hospital practitioners, one public health general practitioner and one former hospital director thus joined the institution. That being so, the institution's different core missions are also apparent in the other recruitments made: one former Judicial Youth Protection Service Director, one former chief auditor at the Court of Auditors, one Inspector-General of the Armies, one photographer and one lawyer, a former President of the Rouen Bar association of lawyers. Furthermore, two inspectors having given up their full-time duties wished to continue working with the institution as external inspectors (one psychiatrist and one former gendarmerie major). Changes in the staff in each function as on 31 December of each year 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Chief inspector Contrôleur général Administrative departments Services administratifs Contrôleurs chargeofdes saisines Inspectors inencharge referrals Contrôleurs à temps plein Permanent inspectors Contrôleurs extérieurs External inspectors 121 2016