occupancy and was about to be placed in full operation. The prison guards and management seemed highly motivated. The inmates also indicated that they looked forward to resettling to the new correctional institution. One challenge will be the logistics of the approximate 4,500 trips that are made each year to the Salzburg Regional Court and back. In order to limit the number of transports, as many interrogations as possible are to be conducted in the Puch/Urstein correctional institution itself. Moreover, transit and holding cells for detainees have been created in the former customs office building. At least 20 minutes’ driving time to the regional court  The new construction of the Salzburg correctional institution offers all the infrastructural prerequisites for a modern penal system. The spacious rooms in the women’s and juvenile sections are particularly gratifying.  A handbook should also be created for other correctional institutions, which, in addition to objectives, should contain a mission statement for the penal system. 2.6. Police institutions and barracks 2.6.1. Introduction In the year under review, the commissions conducted 69 visits to police institutions. Of these, 23 visits were to police detention centres, including detention centres and the Zinnergasse family shelter, and 46 visits were to police stations. 69 visits to police institutions Significant results were also achieved at the regular meetings of the working groups in which representatives of the NPM and the Federal Ministry of the Interior participated. The Human Rights Advisory Council has also made valuable contributions towards resolving recurring questions. Mention should also be made of the statements of the Human Rights Advisory Council regarding supervision and counselling for law enforcement officers, the structural partitioning of toilet facilities in inmate cells and the mandate of the NPM to observe forced returns and removals of refugees by air. One visit was made to a barracks. One visit to a barracks 2.6.2. System-related problem areas – police detention centres 2.6.2.1. Working group on conditions of detention in police detention centres In the Annual Report 2014 (pp. 118 et seq.), the NPM reported on the deployment of a working group, which dedicates itself to the improvement of the living conditions and conditions of detention in police detention centres. The working group, whose members belong to the NPM and the Federal Ministry of the Interior, has been holding Current results of the working group 121