internal affairs bodies were trained. As supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and Freedom House, two training events took place in the SSEP Training Centre for doctors working in the SSEP, including heads of medical and sanitary units, doctors and medical assistants of pre-trial detention facilities and correctional colonies. SSEP medical workers developing a standard medical examination form The first training course was held on 23 February 2012 and was entitled “Effective medical documentation of torture and ill treatment in Kyrgyzstan” and the second training course was held on 12-13 April 2012 and was called “Human rights and effective medical documentation of torture.” On 18 October 2012, a training course was held in the SSEP Centre for officer personnel of the SSEP. In the course of the event, participants learned about the definition of ‘torture’ and the difference between torture and other types of cruel treatment, and the provisions of the new Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On National Centre for Preventing Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment.” In Training event at SSEP Training Centre accordance with this law, in the near future the National Centre for Torture Prevention will begin its activities whose staff members will have the right to access, on an unimpeded basis, all closed institutions of the country at any time during the day or night and without prior notification. Monitoring visits to TDFs and reception centres of internal affairs bodies and PDFs under the SSEP Activities in this area including the following:  training for monitoring group members on the theoretical background and practice of carrying out a monitoring study regarding the respect for human rights in closed institutions and the behaviour of observers. For purposes of adhering to such principles as objectivity, impartiality and confidentiality in the course of monitoring visits, project experts produced a document called “Memo for monitoring observers in closed institutions.”  developing uniform tools for collecting information. To systematize the tools that are used for conducting monitoring studies in places of deprivation and limitation of freedom by a number of human rights organizations in the country and to reduce them to a common denominator, common tools were designed at the previous stage of the research study to be used across the field both in the work of government institutions and for public control. These tools were improved taking into account the experience from the previous monitoring study carried out in 2011.  collecting, analyzing and generalizing monitoring findings. To work up recommendations for improving the human rights record in TDFs and reception centres of internal affairs bodies and PDFs. As the main method for collecting information in the course of the monitoring study, semi-structured interviews with law enforcement officers, administration and personnel of TDFs and reception centres of internal affairs bodies and PDFs, and those held in custody at the moment of visits were used. At the same time, a random sampling method was used, when people had to agree to participate in the research on a voluntary basis. 25