27 Each recommendation referenced relevant legislation and standards, to ensure that factual situation or a conduct of the institution or a competent authority would comply with such legislation and standards. Reports are delivered to the visited institution and competent ministries, together with the invitation for a meeting during which a report is to be reviewed. 5.5. Establishing a cooperative dialogue with public authorities In accordance with the adopted methodology, upon the delivery of the reports on conducted visits, NPM establishes permanent dialogue with the visited institution and competent ministry, for the purpose of mutual assessment of the situation in the visited institution and the entire system, in order to prevent torture or any other kind of ill-treatment. In 2012 the Protector of Citizens while performing the duties of the NPM, established permanent cooperative dialogue with the representatives of the majority of the visited institutions and competent ministries – the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration and the Ministry of Health. A dialogue established between NPM and the Ministry of Internal Affairs - Police Directorate is an example of good practice. In the first place, 26 delivered reports on visits to police stations were reviewed together with the representatives of the visited police administrations. Afterwards, a meeting with representatives of all police administrations in the territory of the Republic of Serbia was organized. On that occasion, recommendations made in these reports were reviewed and commented, as well as other valid standards related to police treatment of the persons deprived of their liberty and prevention of torture. 5.6. Improving legislation on prevention of torture The Protector of Citizens while performing duties of the NPM, issued official opinions to competent authorities regarding improvement of the legal regulations related to the protection of the rights of the PDLs and prevention of torture. With regard to the Draft Law on Execution of Penal Sanctions, the Protector of Citizens among other things pointed out to inadequate categorization of the institutions for

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