Overview of the National Preventive Mechanism Number of visits in 2017 in the individual Laender Around 74% of visits uncovered deficiencies Vienna 149 Lower Austria 84 Styria 58 Tyrol 57 Upper Austria 51 Burgenland 30 Carinthia 24 Salzburg 22 Vorarlberg 20 Total 495 The observations made by the commissions are recorded comprehensively in standardised reports and stored anonymously in a database. This facilitates the evaluation of the results of the visits made in 2017 such as the number of observed deficiencies: the commissions felt compelled to criticise the human rights situations on 346 visits of institutions and 18 police operations. There were no grounds for criticism on 131 visits (105 institutions and 26 police operations). This means that deficiencies were identified in 73.5% of the visits. The observation of police operations resulted in criticism less frequently by the commissions on a pro rata basis than the visits carried out in facilities (40.9% compared to 76.7%). The AOB examines these cases based on the findings of the commissions and contacts the competent ministries, supervisory authorities and also the institutions and facilities themselves in order to draw their attention to improvements. Proportion of visits in 2017 with or withour criticism Monitoring of institutions and facilities Monitoring of police operations Visits in total 16 with criticism without criticism 76,7 % 23,3 % 40,9 % 59,1 % 73,5 % 26,5 %