monitoring activities FORCED deportations Comments The forced deportation was only partly monitored by an Ombudsman employee since monitoring only covered the time from when the police picked up the foreign national until boarding at the airport. The forced deportee was a Nigerian citizen with a residence permit for Italy. The deportee wished to return to Italy. The forced deportation was only partly monitored by an Ombudsman employee since monitoring only covered the time from when the police picked up the foreign national until boarding at the airport. The forced deportee was an elderly woman. The forced deportation was originally planned as an escorted deportation, but was changed into a monitored deportation shortly prior to departure since the police, with the woman’s consent, ­allowed her son to accompany her back to Serbia. 97