Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2013 the meeting, the members of the Albanian delegation were familiarised with the rights of the Polish NPM, the standards applied and the methodology of visits to places of deprivation of liberty, as well as the organisation of the work of the NPM Department at the Office of the Human Rights Defender. Between 25 and 26 June 2013, the Macedonian National Preventive Mechanism organised workshops on national mechanisms for prevention of torture addressed to the representatives of all Balkan states. The representatives of the CPT, the SPT, the APT and a representative of the Polish National Preventive Mechanism were invited as experts. On 1 October 2013, a meeting between a representative of the NPM, the director of the Kyrgyz Centre for the Prevention of Torture and a penitentiary reform adviser of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek was held at the Office of the HRD. Between 4 and 5 November 2013 in Bishkek, a representative of the NPM met with the Ombudsman of the Kyrgyz Republic, the director of the Centre for the Prevention of Torture in Kyrgyzstan who performs the function of the National Preventive Mechanism, as well as with the members of the Coordination Council comprising the representatives of the Parliament and NGOs supporting the Mechanism. On 7 November 2013, the representatives of the NPM Department and the Department of Penal Law met with the experts of the Council of Europe at the Office of the Human Rights Defender. The aim of the meeting was to familiarise the representatives of the Council of Europe with the condition and problems of the prison health care service, taking into account the complaints submitted to the Office of the HRD, and the findings from preventive visits. Between 21 and 22 November 2013, the representative of the Department participated in a  meeting of representatives of national preventive mechanisms from around the world, the representatives of the CPT, the SPT and the Council of Europe, which took place in Strasbourg. The meeting focused on detention of immigrants and was aimed at drafting the Declaration by national preventive mechanisms on the need for Council of Europe rules on immigration detention.15 On 6 December 2013, workshops were held in Skopje on the protection of juveniles detained in organisational units of the Police. A representative of the Polish NPM took part in the workshops. In her presentation, she discussed the results of One of the results of the meeting was the document entitled Draft Standards Framework for the Treatment of Immigration Detainees. At the beginning of 2014, the abovementioned declaration will be presented to the Council of Europe to report the need to develop the relevant standards. See: http:// www.rpo.gov.pl/pl/content/dyrektor-krajowego-mechanizmu-prewencji-wzi%C4%99%C5%82-udzi a%C5%82-w-spotkaniu-krajowych-mechanizm%C3%B3w 15 15