Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2014 The analysis referred to above shows that three police officers were sentenced in 2013-2014 in two court cases235 related to the use of violence to extort information from detainees or physical or mental abuse of a person deprived of his/her liberty. It should be emphasised that, in these cases, torture was used, because the police officers, acting in cooperation and consultation with other officers to extort testimony, confession to a crime or obtain information, intentionally inflicted physical and mental pain on detainees. It is also worth noting that sentences in the above cases usually fluctuated around the lower threshold provided for in the Penal Code. In two cases, these were sentences of one-year imprisonment suspended for a trial period of 5 years. In one case, a court ruled imprisonment for three years and six months and a prohibition to exercise the profession of police officer for 10 years. All incidents of torture took place outside the rooms for detained persons or persons brought to sober up which were visited by the employees of the National Preventive Mechanism. They occurred in personnel rooms at police stations. 11.  NPM visiting team (alphabetical order) Magdalena Filipiak – a lawyer and a psychologist, a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, currently a student of Interdisciplinary PhD Studies at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. She has been an employee of the National Preventive Mechanism Department in the Office of the Human Rights Defender since 2012. Karolina Goral – a special pedagogue (specialisation: social rehabilitation and family support) and a psychotherapist, a graduate of the Maria Grzegorzewska University of Special Pedagogy in Warsaw and a third-year student of the Professional School of Psychotherapy of the Institute of Health Psychology of the Polish Psychological Association. In 2010-2013, she served as a social probation officer of the District Court for Warsaw-Praga Północ. Since 2010, she has been employed at the Office of the Human Rights Defender, an employee of the National Preventive Mechanism. A volunteer hotline consultant to persons in emotional crisis and behaviourally addicted persons at the Institute of Health Psychology. Aleksandra Iwanowska – a doctor of law, a graduate of the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Philology at the University of Bialystok. She authored publicaDistrict Court in Płock (X K 9/13), District Court for Warsaw-Żoliborz in Warsaw (III K 71/10). 235 70