Finally, the Danish Ombudsman draws up an internal monitoring report. In the event that the monitoring of an operation raises doubts or concerns, the monitor prepares a report which it submits to the Police Authority. 3.10 Use of checklists during the monitoring activity In general, many of the bodies that replied to the questionnaire claimed they use checklists (complete lists of the aspects to be checked or verified on the basis of which the monitoring activity is carried out) and/or questionnaires useful to support the monitoring activity. The Belgian monitor, for example, uses its own checklist and a report model to describe the mission in detail. The Swedish agency also has its own report template, as does the monitoring body of Slovenia, where the checklist is the result of field experience and of training received. In the Netherlands, a checklist is used, both for monitoring domestic flights The Italian National Guarantor is implementing a and for monitoring operations carried specific online platform for filling in and sending the out with Frontex. monitoring checklist and believes that it would be The Greek monitors use their own useful to have more detailed information from the escort on the individual situation of the returnees. template and an internally developed The current checklist in use is partially based on the checklist. At the end of each operation, Frontex checklist. the data entered are submitted to the The need to create a checklist that can be filled out on Ombudsman in a report that details a shared platform arises from the organizational each phase. needs of the Italian National Guarantor: in fact, In the United Kingdom, a particularly during the monitoring operations, it is possible that detailed and complete form is used, in returnees are taken in charge by different monitors which the monitoring agency has (also in force at the regional Guarantors), in which developed its Expectations. The Swiss case each phase is monitored by different subjects. It NCPT has a standardized is therefore essential to acquire the information in an questionnaire in use that formulates orderly, clear and homogeneous way, for each phase of the transfer. These data must be reported to the specific questions based on the active monitor of the next phase with the greatest different monitoring phases. number of details possible. In Spain, the NPM uses a specific template with a checklist and a list of questions used to interview returnees with regard to their stay in prison, in a detention centre, during the transfer to the airport and the treatment received by the staff who had them in custody. In general, this country also makes use of the Frontex checklist. Malta and Germany also use the Frontex checklist, while Cyprus is elaborating its own monitoring report template, in order to collect data uniformly. Finally, in Finland and Slovakia no structured form or checklist is used. 3.11 Involvement of NGOs and the press by the monitoring body Most of the answers on this point are negative: the monitors of Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Finland and Belgium do not collaborate with NGOs or associations active in civil society, nor is involvement of the press envisaged (the decision to do so would be on the Directorate of the Department of Public Security – see also the Swedish case).

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