Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2013
the visits to the Police emergency centres for children in the years 2008-2013 and
the amendments to regulations on children deprived of liberty which were implemented as a result of general petitions of the Human Rights Defender.16
6. Training
On 15 February 2013, a training entitled Courts and juvenile addictions and
other aspects of juvenile delinquency proceedings, organised in cooperation with
Iustitia Judicial Training Centre Foundation, took place at the Office of the HRD.
The training attended by the members of the NPM Department and judges of
family and civil courts was delivered by a representative of the Nobody’s Children Foundation and a representative of the Addiction Rehabilitation Centre in
Zagórze.
The representatives of the NPM participated in the training on anti-discriminatory law organised on 29 May 2013 at the Office of the HRD.
On 11 and 12 December 2013, the members of the NPM Department took
part in a training on accessibility of buildings for persons with various disabilities,
organised by the Poland without Barriers Foundation. The two-day workshops
covered not only legal issues, but also practical experience with architectural barriers and the needs of persons with physical and sensory disability.
7. 5th periodic visit of CPT representatives to Poland
Between 5 and 17 June 2013, the CPT representatives visited selected places
of deprivation of liberty in Poland. The aim of the visit was to verify the implementation of recommendations issued by the CPT as a result of the visit to Poland
in 2009.17 Particular attention was paid to the treatment of persons detained in
the Police detention rooms and the conditions in prisons (with a focus on prison
health care service and the treatment of prisoners classified as “dangerous”).
On 5 June 2013, Professor Irena Lipowicz – the Human Rights Defender,
Ryszard Czerniawski PhD – Deputy Human Rights Defender, employees of the
NPM Department, representatives of the Department of Penal Law and the Department of Administrative Law and Economic Law met with the CPT delegation.
See: http://www.rpo.gov.pl/pl/content/przedstawiciel-kmp-wojciech-sadownik-wzi%C4%85%C5
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Report from the visit in 2009 was published in 2011 (CPT/Inf (2011) 20).
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