39 The Administration for the Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions should provide for continuous training sessions for its staff working in institutions in the prohibition of illtreatment, standards for treatment of persons deprived of their liberty, and particularly in doctors’ activities in line with the Istanbul Protocol. The Administration for the Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions should improve the enforcement of alternative sanctions in the Republic of Serbia. It is necessary to improve the system for support to convicts after completion of their prison sanctions. The Administration for the Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions should ensure that persons with mental impairment serving their prison sentences be displaced from the regular prison regime and be provided health-care corresponding to their disease and be provided with adequate drugs within the stationary health-care units within institution, in Special Prison Hospital or any other adequate health-care institution. Ministry of Justice should undertake all measures under its competence so as to adopt regulations that would enable that prison sentences for women and minors, as well as correctional measures of committing to correctional homes, are not enforced in only one institution, in order to enable them to serve their sentences in the place closest to their place of residence. Ministry of Justice should undertake necessary measures so that Inspection Department becomes special organizational unit of that Ministry, outside the Administration for the Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions. Ministry of Justice should undertake necessary measures so that services providing health-care to persons deprived of their liberty in the institutions for the enforcement of criminal sanctions become organizational parts of the Ministry of Health or separate organizational unit within the Administration for the Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions. 6.4. Detention of persons with mental disorders to the psychiatric hospitals In the course of 2015, with the aim of monitoring the compliance with the recommendations given under the Report on the Visit of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture to the Republic of Serbia conducted in 2011, NPM visited to the Specialized Hospital for Mental Diseases “Gornja Toponica” and to the Clinic for Psychiatric Diseases “Dr. Laza Lazarević” in Belgrade. A positive step forward in the Special Hospital for Psychiatric Diseases “Gornja Toponica” reflects in the fact that in the cases of forced hospitalizations they exclusively engage expert witnesses who are not doctors working in the Hospital, which is not the practice in the other hospitals. However, a large number of patients (around 760) are hospitalized in the Special Hospital for Psychiatric Diseases “Gornja Toponica”, but the number of patients placed in the Hospital without their consent is reduced to 15% of the total number of patients. In the course of the reporting period it was determined that the number of patients in the Hospital for Psychiatric Diseases “Dr. Laza Lazarević” in Belgrade was reduced, for they were implementing the programme for treatment in the community, which implied services of tertiary prevention whose objective was to strengthen the linkages of a patient, his/her family and cousins in the treatment, on one side and the community on the other side, so as to prepare a patient to leave the institution and continuous care. All of these things contribute towards reduction of the duration of hospital treatment and number of re-hospitalizations and increases

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