Overview of the National Preventive Mechanism
nursing homes, youth welfare facilities, institutions and facilities for persons
with disabilities, psychiatric wards in medical facilities and hospitals, as well
as correctional facilities. The observed police operations are shown in the
last column. The different Laender are listed in relation to these categories,
thus visualising the number of times a type of institution was visited in the
respective Land.
Number of visits in 2017 in individual Laender
according to type of institution
police
ret.+
nur.h.
youth
inst.f.
disabl.
psych.
wards
corr.
inst.
others
pol.op.
Vienna
21
24
42
20
8
8
3
23
Burgenland
2
8
10
8
0
1
1
0
10
17
16
15
6
11
8
1
18
8
3
11
2
3
3
3
Salzburg
3
5
2
7
0
1
1
3
Carinthia
2
3
2
10
5
0
0
2
Styria
12
16
5
4
8
6
0
7
Vorarlberg
4
5
0
4
4
2
0
1
Tyrol
10
14
13
10
3
3
0
4
Total
82
100
93
89
36
35
16
44
unannounced
82
100
91
89
36
35
15
21
Lower
Austria
Upper
Austria
Legend:
ret.+nur.h.
youth
inst.f.disabl.
psych.wards
corr.inst.
others
pol.op.
= retirement and nursing homes
= youth welfare facilities
= institutions and facilities for persons with disabilities
= psychiatric wards in medical facilities and hospitals
= correctional institutions
= asylum seeker accommodation, barracks etc.
= police operations
Three things are noticeable from these statistics. Most of the visits took place
in retirement and nursing homes, youth welfare facilities and institutions for
persons with disabilities. This is attributable to the fact that these institutions
constitute the majority of all institutions to be visited by the NPM commissions.
Marked differences in the distribution of the visits over the individual Laender
are also evident. Most of the visits were in Vienna and Lower Austria, as the
density of facilities is very high in these Laender. The following table shows the
overall number of visits per Land.
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