inspection, to require explanation from the Director of the Home in Prekolnitsa Village and to impose disciplinary sanctions. In my letter to the Minister I insisted that he should notify all structures within the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (homes for children without parental care, homes for mentally challenged children, home for elderly people with mental disorders, dementia and mental disabilities) that such an attitude to officers from the NPM is unacceptable not only to the institution of the Ombudsman, but to the international bodies, which the Ombudsman has undertaken to report to regarding his activities in the capacity as National Preventive Mechanism. Disciplinary liability of the Director of the Home was invoked upon as a result of the recommendations made. ІІ. STATISTICS OF THE INSPECTIONS CARRIED OUT The team of the National Preventive Mechanism carried out inspections at 199 sites in the period 01 January – 31 December 2013: 1. Structures within the State Agency for Refugees (SAR) with the Council of Ministers – 7. 2. State psychiatric hospitals and mental health centres – 13. 3. Institutions providing social and medical – social services: - Homes for medical – social care for children – 9; - Juvenile delinquents school – boarding school – 1; - Homes for children with disabilities – 15; - Homes for elderly people suffering mental disorders, dementia and mentally challenged – 18. 4. Detention facilities with the Ministry of Interior (MI) and the Ministry of Defence (MD): - Detention facility premises within the MI structures – 84; - Detention facility premises within the Military Police structures – 3. 5. Detention facilities with the Ministry of Justice: - Temporary stay and isolation premises in the buildings of the courts – 46; - Prisons – 3. 4