44 unit did not give the patients a satisfactory sense of spending time outdoors or sufficiently safeguarded their privacy. The placing of the restraint beds in the segregation units was problematic because it could generate unnecessary fear or increase the risk of the restraint bed being used instead of less intrusive measures. The NPM found patients who were segregated in the segregation unit while the staff sat with the door closed in the main corridor outside the unit. This practice, as it was observed during the visit, indicated that the segregation resembled isolation. The NPM was left with the impression that many patients wanted to spend more time outside, more physical activities and a more active staff who could facilitate indoor activities. After the visit The visit report was published in February 2016, and the hospital shall inform the Parliamentary Ombudsman about its follow-up of the report’s recommendations in June 2016. Sørlandet Hospital, Kristiansand NORWEGIAN PARLIAMENTARY OMBUDSMAN National Preventive Mechanism against Torture and Ill-Treatment ANNUAL REPORT 2015 The police immigration detention centre at Trandum The police immigration detention centre at Trandum 19–21 May 2015 Unannounced visit The detention centre has the capacity to hold 140 detainees, and the plan is to extend the capacity to include another 90 places in 2016. The detainees do not have legal residence in Norway and have been detained on grounds of suspicion that they have given a false identity or to prevent them from evading the enforcement of a final decision requiring them to leave the country. Being detained at Trandum is not the consequence of a criminal offence and does not therefore constitute punishment. Findings In the early morning of 21 May, the NPM observed an escorted deportation of eleven individuals from the time they left the detention centre until they boarded a