65 International cooperation the national preventive mechanisms. This enables the national preventive mechanisms and the SPT to complement and strengthen each other’s efforts. The SPT has not yet made an official visit to places of detention in Norway, but the members of the committee are actively involved in Norway’s preventive efforts in a supportive and advisory capacity. In June 2015, the NPM received a visit from SPT member and focal point for Europe Mari Amos, and it took the opportunity to discuss concrete issues linked to preventive work. The NPM’s experience is that it is closely followed up by and receives valuable feedback and good advice from the committee. The SPT has also published several statements in 2015 on important aspects of torture prevention. Among other things, the committee issued a statement at the request of the NPM on cross-border preventive efforts. 2 In November, the SPT issued a statement concerning the rights of people who are institutionalised and receive medical treatment without having given their informed consent.3 Representatives from several national preventive mechanisms, the SPT and civil society, among others, who participated at the APT's Jean-Jacques Gauthier symposium, which addressed the vulnerabilities of LGBT persons in detention. 2 SPT, SPT opinion on cross-border monitoring, February 2015, https://www.sivilombudsmannen.no/aktuelt/ fns-underkomite-for-forebygging-spt-har-gitt-rad-om-forebyggingsarbeid-pa-tvers-av-landegrenser-article3495-2865.html. 3 SPT, Approach of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on the rights of persons institutionalized and medically treated without informed consent, November 2015.