14 The NPM's employees The NPM has an interdisciplinary composition and employees from different vocational backgrounds with different types of expertise. It gained two new positions in January 2016, which have strengthened its interdisciplinary composition. In 2016, the NPM’s staff consisted of graduate lawyers, a criminologist, a sociologist, a psychologist and a social scientist. NORWEGIAN PARLIAMENTARY OMBUDSMAN National Preventive Mechanism ANNUAL REPORT 2016 The NPM is organised as its own department under the Parliamentary Ombudsman. It does not consider individual complaints. If the NPM receives complaints during a visit, they are passed on to the Ombudsman's complaints departments. Employees from the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s complaints departments regularly take part in the visits. They provide further legal expertise to the visit teams, and increasing case officers’ knowledge of places of detention also benefits the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s case processing. Photo: Morten Delbæk, Aktiv1 Employees on February 1, 2017. Back row from left: senior adviser Jannicke Thoverud Godø, senior adviser Jonina Hermannsdottir, head of the NPM Helga Fastrup Ervik, senior adviser Christian Ranheim and parliamentary ombudsman Aage Thor Falkanger. Front row from the left: senior adviser Johannes Flisnes Nilsen, adviser Caroline Klæth Eriksen, senior adviser Mette Jansen Wannerstedt and project adviser Elyse Leonard.