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The EDPM will be completed with data from various available sources, taking into account
their credibility.
The copies of relevant regulations will be downloaded from the Protector of Citizens’ regulations
database, valid standards and reports will be downloaded from the official websites of institutions,
data on places of detention of persons deprived of liberty (“identity card of institutions“) will be
formed on the basis of information gathered by the means of initial questionnaires, while press
clippings on persons deprived of liberty and on torture will be taken from the Protector of Citizens’
database.
The EDPM has the form of website.
Initially, the EDPM will be set as an internal website on the Protector of Citizens’ server; afterwards
it will be available via the Internet with different levels of access (by using the domain controller,
members of the Preventive Mechanism will be able to access all data in the base with special code,
while other users will be restricted only to the “open” areas, i.e. bases of the website).
2.4.
DETERMINING THE STRUCTURE OF REPORTS
The Preventive Mechanism reports are drafted according to the structure established in
advance:
1. Basic facts about the visit (time, type of visit, members of team, interlocutors…),
2. Relevant information about the institution that the monitoring team had at its disposal
before the visit (existing reports about the situation in institution),
3. Basic facts about the institution (type of institution, capacity, its description…),
4. Team activities that are implemented in the course of monitoring (actions that the visiting
team conducted in order to become aware of the situation in the institution),
5. Identified factual situation in certain areas (facts that the visiting team verified as indisputable
and are related to the position of persons deprived of liberty in places of detention, e.g.: living
conditions, health care, nutrition, hygiene; classification, categorization; treatment, work,
education; correspondence, telephone calls, visits, parcels; special rights, application of
coercive and special measures, disciplinary procedures and measures; complaints and actions
taken upon grievances and complaints, provision of legal aid; position of juveniles, women,
minorities and LGBT persons, religious rights, post-release assistance, internal controls and
visits of external subjects; transfers, suspension of sentence; disciplinary procedures against
the personnel; internal oversight over the work; attitude towards the Protector of Citizens…)
6. Identified irregularities in the work of institution (identified developments that are not in
accordance with the regulations and standards in force),
7. Indication to relevant provisions of domestic and international regulations and standards
related to the perceived developments of work irregularities
8. Recommendation of measures for elimination of noted irregularities in work and period
of time for procedure i.e. for elimination of irregularities
9. General conclusion about the situation in institution
2.5.
EDUCATION OF THE PREVENTIVE MECHANISM MEMBERS
The internal training of the Preventive Mechanism members is carried out in order to make
them fully qualified to adequately implement all anticipated activities.
The internal training is carried out through courses in the following areas: relevant international
instruments and national legislation in the field of basic human rights and freedoms, rights
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