20 4.3. Separate pro-active NPM Organizational Unit During 2012, NPM duties have been carried out by the employees in the Expert Service of the Protector of Citizens working on complaints of persons deprived of their liberty. By the end of 2012, the Expert Service of the Protector of Citizens separated re-active duties related to proceedings upon complaints of PDLs and pro-active activities aimed to prevent torture. By the end of 2012, a separate NPM Organizational Unit has been formed, whose task is to pursue activities aiming to prevent torture. The staffing scheme of the NPM Organizational Unit envisages four employees, of which only two are employed for an indefinite period of time. Pending modification of the staffing scheme in the Expert Service of the Protector of Citizens should enable employees to get employed on a full-time basis. 4.4. Cooperation of the Protector of Citizens in performing duties of the NPM with the Ombudsman of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina In compliance with the signed Cooperation Memorandum, The Protector of Citizens in 2012 cooperated with the Ombudsman of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in the monitoring team’s visits to the institutions where PDLs are placed in the territory of the AP Vojvodina. Representatives of the Ombudsman of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina participated in 28 visits to the institutions where PDLs are placed during 2012. Representatives of the Ombudsman of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina also participated in several monitoring visits to NPM institutions outside of AP Vojvodina. In some of the visits a representative of the Ombudsman of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina was the leader of a monitoring team. The Ombudsman of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina has been systematically monitoring the position of persons placed in nursing homes and geriatric centers, and as a result of it, he drafted four reports completely autonomously (nursing homes for elderly and retired people in Apatin, Моl and Futog; Gerontology Center in Bečej), as well as the report on monitoring visit to social welfare institution- home for women with disabilities „Sveta Petka“, in village Izvor, next to the city Paraćin.