Annual Report 2015 - Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism 146.  The NPM collaborates with human rights organisations in other countries, giving workshops on the Spanish NPM’s mandate and the activity it develops. Professional meetings were held in 2015 with an Inter-Ministerial Delegation on Human Rights in Morocco, with representatives from the Paraguayan NPM, experts from the Provedor de Justiça (Ombudsman) of Mozambique, a delegation from the Ombudsman of the Czech Republic and with the Philippine Commission on Human Rights. The NPM also went to Ankara to take part in the project supporting the establishment of the Turkish Ombudsman. 147.  Finally, whilst not directly related to the performance of the NPM, the actions taken by this institution with respect to Spanish prisoners abroad should be highlighted. According to data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, on December 30th 2014 there were 1,735 Spanish citizens serving sentences in foreign prisons. 4 out of 5 of these sentences are for crimes related to drug trafficking. In 2015 the study on The situation of Spanish prisoners abroad was published. The study analysed 224 reports handled by the institution during the two previous years, corresponding to prisons in 27 countries. Said study put forward recommendations for improving the situation of the prisoners, such as setting up prison legal advisory and assistance services in the Ibero-American consulates, strengthening the human and material resources in consulates which provide assistance to a greater number of prisoners, improving the communication channels between relatives and consular authorities, establishing support mechanisms for Spanish citizens on parole or temporary release in a foreign country and who cannot leave that country due to pending criminal liabilities, and reducing the processing times for executing transfer proceedings once these have been approved. In addition, as in previous years, visits to foreign Prison Facilities have been made on the back of business trips by NPM staff related to other matters: the Tires and Lisbon Prison Facilities in Portugal; the Picota de Bogotá and El Buen Pastor Prison Facilities in Colombia; the Da Capital Female Prison, the Sant’Ana Female Prison and the Cabo P. M. Marcelo Pires da Silva Prison Establishment in Brazil; the Ezeiza No.1 Federal Prison Complex and the Female Federal Detention Centre (U-31) in Argentina; and one Prison Facility in Albania. 110