Activities during the period 1 January to 31 December 2017 Visits 1. The CPT organised 18 visits totalling 162 days during the year 2017. Ten of the visits (totalling 105 days) formed part of the CPT’s annual programme of periodic visits for 2017 and eight (57 days) were ad hoc visits which the Committee considered were required in the circumstances. Details of all these visits (dates and places of deprivation of liberty visited) are provided in Appendix 7. Periodic visits 2. Periodic visits were carried out to Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Montenegro, Poland, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine. The main objective of the visits was to review the measures taken by the relevant authorities to implement recommendations made by the Committee after previous visits to the countries concerned. To this end, the CPT examined the treatment and conditions of detention of persons held in police establishments and prisons. Particular attention was paid to specific categories, for instance, remand prisoners (Belgium, Montenegro, Turkey), high-security prisoners (Belgium, Turkey) and women in prison (Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Turkey). Visiting delegations also continued to pay particular attention to the treatment and conditions of detention of juveniles (notably in Croatia, Estonia, Montenegro, Poland, Ukraine) and an increased amount of attention was given to persons held under aliens legislation, compared with the previous year (Cyprus, Poland, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine). In addition, in many of the countries visited (Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Montenegro, Poland, Slovenia and Ukraine), delegations visited civil and/or forensic psychiatric establishments in order to examine the treatment and legal safeguards offered to patients admitted on an involuntary basis. ► Page 7