-5I. ACTIVITIES IN 1992 a. Visits 1. The CPT carried out visits to seven countries during 1992: in chronological order, to Portugal (19 to 27 January 1992), Italy (15 to 27 March 1992), San Marino (25 to 27 March 1992), Finland (10 to 20 May 1992), the Netherlands (30 August to 7 September 1992), Cyprus (2 to 9 November 1992), and Turkey (22 November to 4 December 1992). The visits were all of a periodic nature. The CPT had planned to make an eighth periodic visit, to Luxembourg, in the course of 1992. However, in the light of workload difficulties within the Committee's Secretariat, it was decided to postpone the visit to 19931. 2. The places of detention visited by CPT delegations in 1992 are set out in Appendix 3. Visits to police stations and civil prisons continued to make up the staple diet of the Committee, though an increasing number of psychiatric establishments were visited. A significant extension of the CPT's activities to other types of places where persons are deprived of their liberty can be expected once the Committee has completed its "first round" of periodic visits to all Parties to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereinafter "the Convention"). 3. On the whole, visiting delegations received a satisfactory degree of cooperation from both authorities at national (ministerial) level and the authorities in charge of the places visited. As during 1991, there were some isolated examples of a delegation's access to a place which it wished to visit being delayed (for more than two hours on one occasion). The problem concerned almost exclusively establishments of forces responsible for police functions. The CPT recognises that at the start of a visit to any place of detention, a short period may be required to check the identity of the members of the visiting delegation. However, this should be a question of minutes, not hours. In order to counter difficulties concerning the implementation in practice of the CPT's right of unlimited access to places of detention, the practice is developing of national authorities providing delegation members with credentials, in addition to the identity papers issued by the Council of Europe. 1 The visit to Luxembourg took place from 17 to 25 January 1993.