including drawing up comments on legislative projects, increasing the awareness and professional training of staff working in detention places. - the state party should enhance the visibility of NPM, also by increasing awareness on OPCAT and the NPM mandate. NPM recommendations should be visibly discussed and approached. To this purpose, the subcommittee recommends that NPM should enhance advocacy activities with institutions where persons are deprived from freedom, with the relevant ministries and the lawmaker. Furthermore, NPM should get involved in the legislative process, in advocacy, activities that it is encouraged to develop based on art. 19 of OPCAT, with a view to increasing the general visibility of NPM. - drawing up and distributing several materials on the NPM mandate and its activities, to the staff and detainees in places of deprivation from freedom, as well as the civil society in general; - to enhance the capacities of the recently employed NPM staff and increase professional training for all participants in NPM activities. The Subcommittee recommends that NPM should continue developing its capacity by increasing cooperation with the Subcommittee, as well as by getting involved with other NPMs and NPM networks. ► The delegation of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Punishment or Treatment performed a visit to Romania at the beginning of 2018; with this opportunity, it met with the People’s Advocate Institution, the Deputy of the People’s Advocate Institution who coordinates the activity of the Field regarding prevention of torture and the staff of the field. The CPT delegation was interested in the fulfilment of the preventive mandate by NPM. In this context, so as to observe OPCAT provisions and considering the SPT directives regarding national prevention mechanisms - Basic principles, stipulating that: 26