2016 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE Inspections Conducted at Places of Detention During the reporting year, the Seimas Ombudsmen conducted inspections at 47 (forty-seven) places of detention in total, including: • 27 (twenty-seven) at adult care institutions (16 questionnaire-based, 10 follow-up and one thematic); • 6 (six) at police custody and long-term or temporary detention facilities (four questionnairebased and two follow-up); • 4 (four) at detention and accommodation facilities for foreigners (three questionnaire-based and one follow-up); • 4 (four) at children’s care institutions (thematic); • 4 (four) at imprisonment institutions (one thematic and three follow-up); • 2 (two) at mental institutions (one thematic and one follow-up). It is important to note that in 2015 the Seimas Ombudsmen had assessed the human rights situation at nine care institutions in Panevėžys County (for elderly people). However, in the process of preparing the annual report (2015) of the Seimas Ombudsmen, no information had been available on the implementation of these inspections. For this reason, the information is included in the 2016 report of the Seimas Ombudsmen. A total of 51 recommendations had been issued. The majority of the inspections or 23 were questionnaire-based ones, followed by seven thematic inspections. Great attention was devoted to the follow-up inspections totalling 17. Most of the Seimas Ombudsmen’s recommendations were implemented (fully or partially), or the Seimas Ombudsmen were supplied with plans on their implementation in the future: 70 recommendations were implemented after the questionnaire-based inspections, and cooperation is continued with the responsible authorities on the implementation of the remaining recommendations. The Seimas Ombudsmen’s activity report for 2015 described the shortcomings identified by the inspections at 4 (four) children’s care institutions of Vilnius County. The responsible authorities were provided with 24 recommendations in total. On completing the inspections in 2016, a total of 122 recommendations were drawn up, of which 46 were addressed to the adult care institutions, 25 to the children’s care institutions, 27 to the police stations, 14 to the imprisonment institutions and 10 to the foreigners’ detention and accommodation facilities. The Report further presents the problems identified during the visits and the recommendations provided to the responsible authorities with respect to the elimination of these shortcomings and the progress achieved in implementing the recommendations. Of the above-mentioned recommendations, eight ones were concerned with the improvement of legal acts. Also 98 recommendations were drawn up after follow-up inspections. 10