2 – Police stations ............................................................................................................................................................71
2.1 – Visits to Mannheim East, Mannheim City Centre, Heidelberg City Centre and Heidelberg South police
stations in 2012 .......................................................................................................................................................71
2.2 – Visit to Berlin City Police Custody in 2012 ............................................................................................................73
2.3 – Konstanz, Singen and Friedrichshafen police stations ..........................................................................................74
2.4 – Reutershagen Police Station...................................................................................................................................76
3 – Prisons ........................................................................................................................................................................78
3.1 – Visit to Tonna Prison in 2012 ..................................................................................................................................78
3.2 – Visit to Goldlauter Prison in 2012...........................................................................................................................79
3.3 – Konstanz Prison ......................................................................................................................................................81
3.4 – Nuremberg Prison...................................................................................................................................................83
4 – Court holding cells .....................................................................................................................................................85
4.1 – Visit to the court holding cells at Berlin-Tiergarten Local Court in 2012 .............................................................85
5 – Youth detention facilities ..........................................................................................................................................87
5.1 – Königs Wusterhausen Youth Detention Facility ..................................................................................................87
6 – Child and youth welfare facilities ..............................................................................................................................91
6.1 – Visit to Gauting Home for Girls in 2012 ................................................................................................................91
6.2 – Visit to Würzburg Clearing House in 2012 ............................................................................................................92
V Annex ...........................................................................................................................................................................96
1 – Chronological list of visits ..........................................................................................................................................98
2 – History and legal bases ...............................................................................................................................................99
3 – Members of the Federal Agency ................................................................................................................................100
4 – Members of the Joint Commission ...........................................................................................................................100
5 – National and international activities of the National Agency in the period under review......................................101
6 – General Assembly Resolution 57/199 on the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 18 December 2002 ................................................102
7 – Organisational Decree of the Federal Ministry of Justice of 20 November 2008 ...................................................112
8 – State Treaty on the Establishment of a National Mechanism of all the Länder in accordance with Article 3 of
the Optional Protocol of 18 December 2002 to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 25 June 2009.....................................................................................111
9 – Administrative Agreement on the National Agency for the Prevention of Torture in accordance with the
Optional Protcol of 18 December 2002 to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment ...................................................................................................................114
10 – Rules of procedure of the National Agency for the Prevention of Torture ..........................................................117
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