Overview of the National Preventive Mechanism Number of visits in 2020 in the individual Laender Deficits identified on around 73% of the visits Vienna 93 Lower Austria 89 Styria 51 Tyrol 47 Salzburg 45 Upper Austria 45 Burgenland 40 Carinthia 26 Vorarlberg 12 Total 448 The observations from all 448 monitoring visits are documented in detail in the commissions’ reports. The commissions felt compelled to criticise the human rights situation on 325 of the visits. There were no grounds for criticism on just 123 monitoring visits (106 institutions and 17 police operations). Deficits were thus identified by the commissions on 73% of the visits. Proportion of visits in 2020 with or withour criticism Monitoring of institutions and facilities Observation of police operations Visits in total with criticism without criticism 75% 25% 0% 100% 73% 27% The following graph gives an overview of how the criticism is distributed across the individual areas addressed by the commissions on their visits. It must be noted here that several areas are monitored on almost every visit and the criticism thus relates to several areas. Most of the criticism was in relation to health care (17.7%). Living conditions were criticised almost as frequently (16.4%), in which case sanitary and hygiene standards, food or the leisure activities programmes were considered most critical. Measures that restrict freedom as well as insufficient human resources were also frequent grounds for criticism (13% and 11% respectively). 17