Healthcare Inspectorate Wales HIW regulates and inspects all health care in Wales. Part of this role involves monitoring compliance with mental health legislation and ensuring that health care organisations observe the deprivation of liberty safeguards under the Mental Health Capacity Act 2005. In doing so, HIW works closely with CSSIW (see above), which monitors the use of deprivation of liberty safeguards in social care settings. HIW also participates in HMIP-led inspections of prisons in Wales, assessing the health care provided to prisoners and ensuring that it is equivalent to that provided in the community. www.hiw.org.uk Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary HMIC has a statutory duty to inspect and report on the efficiency and effectiveness of policing. Following the ratification of OPCAT, HMIC’s role has included carrying out inspections of police custody facilities in England and Wales in partnership with HMIP. The new inspection programme for Border Force customs custody facilities commenced in December 2012. www.hmic.gov.uk http://www.hmic.gov.uk/media/annual report-2011-12.pdf Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary for Scotland In 2012–13, the role of HMICS was to monitor and improve police services in Scotland. HMICS inspected various aspects of policing and published a report on the care and welfare of detained persons in police custody in January 2013. Since the merger of Scotland’s eight police forces into one national service on 1 April 2013, the role of HMICS under the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 has been to monitor the state, efficiency and effectiveness of the Police Service of Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority. HMICS will continue to monitor the treatment of and conditions for detained persons with an inspection of custodial facilities within the new national service scheduled to take place in early 2014. http://www.hmics.org/ http://www.hmics.org/publications/hmics annual-report-2012-13 Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons HMIP is an independent statutory organisation that carries out regular inspections of places of detention to assess the treatment of and conditions for detainees. HMIP inspects all prisons in England and Wales, including young offender institutions, all immigration removal centres, short-term holding facilities and escort arrangements for immigration detainees, and all police custody facilities in association with HMIC. By invitation, HMIP also participates in inspections of prisons in Northern Ireland (in partnership with CJINI) and inspects some military detention facilities. In 2012, HMIP was granted powers to inspect court custody facilities and also began inspecting secure training centres in partnership with Ofsted, and customs custody facilities with HMIC. www.justice.gov.uk/about/hmi-prisons/ index.htm http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/ publications/corporate-reports/hmiprisons/hm-inspectorate-prisons-annualreport-2012-13.pdf 37