ANNUAL REPORT OF NPM 2019 _______________________________________________________________________________________ VII. Mental health institutions During the reporting period, the NPM visited the KFPI - Emergency and Psychiatric Intensive Care Ward (hereinafter, EPICW), Mental Health Centres, Integrated Community Homes, Centre for Integration and Rehabilitation of Chronic Psychiatric Patients in Shtime (hereinafter, CIRCPP), Special Institute in Shtime as well as Community-Based Homes. The purpose of the visits was to assess the progress of the competent authorities in implementing the NPM recommendations made through previous reports with recommendations. Kosovo Forensic Psychiatric Institute (KFPI) The Forensic Psychiatry Institute was opened in August 2014, and is currently under the management of HUCSK (the Hospital and University Clinical Service of Kosovo). The capacity of this institution is 36 beds (12 beds in each ward). Pursuant to the Law on Mental Health, KFPI is an organizational unit of HUCSK. Under the applicable law, it provides tertiary services for the whole country (the only one in Kosovo)89. The relevant legal basis is found in the Criminal Code90 of the Republic of Kosovo, the Criminal Procedure Code91, the Law on Execution of Criminal Sanctions92 and the Law on Mental Health. The KFPI accommodates perpetrators who have committed a criminal offense while in a state of mental incompetence or substantially diminished mental capacity, who are subject of a competent court's order for a mandatory psychiatric treatment 93 , as well as persons who are subject to a court order for psychiatric assessment for a ruling on custody in a health care institution94. Through its report with recommendations on the visit to the KFPI published on 28 August 2018 95, the NPM recommended the following to the competent authorities: Ministry of Health: • Ombudsperson’s NPM should be notified of the legal status of IKPF. Hospital and University Clinical Service of Kosovo: • Regularly supply the IKPF with medicines and other necessary things for carrying out the work. • Implement the recommendation of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, as regards the content of the Guide to the use of means of restraint. • Increase psycho-social activities. 89 Law no. 05/L-025 on Mental Health, Article 13 paragraph 1.2. Criminal Code of the Republic of Kosovo, Article 18 and Articles 87-90. 91 Kosovo Criminal Procedure Code, Articles 506-508. 92 Law on Execution of Criminal Sanctions, Articles 174-180. 93 Criminal Code of the Republic of Kosovo, Article 89. 94 Kosovo Criminal Procedure Code, Article 508 paragraph 4. 95 Report with recommendations concerning the visit conducted to the Institute of Kosovo Forensic Psychiatry, published on 28 August 2018. See: https://www.oik-rks.org/en/2018/08/28/report-with-recommendations-of-the-npm-concerning-the-visitconducted-to-the-institute-of-kosovo-forensic-psychiatry/. 90 39