Table of Contents 1. The Ombudsman as the National Preventive Mechanism 8 1.1. Introduction 8 1.2. The National Preventive Mechanism 9 1.3. The structure supporting the National Preventive Mechanism 10 1.3.1. The Advisory Council 10 1.3.2. The Steering Committee 11 1.3.3. The Visitors Team 11 1.3.4. The Administrative Support 12 1.4. Financial resources 2. National Preventive Mechanism Activities 12 12 2.1. Visits 12 2.2. External initiatives and institutional promotion 31 2.2.1. Participation in external initiatives 31 2.2.2. Institutional promotion 36 3. Visits analytic index 37 |5