This should also be noted that the recommendations and suggestions made to the periodic reports of the Azerbaijani Government under the review process by the UN HRC Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group, as well as by CAT and APT were considered to ensure efficient activity of the Ombudsman as an NPM as specified by the OPCAT. 12 1.3.Directions of the activity of the NPM The Azerbaijani NPM performs its activities in the following four directions: Preventive visits – regular, scheduled or ad-hoc, unannounced visits to places of detention; Legal analysis – the theoretical and practical analysis of the performed activities, as well as information collected during the course of such activities, relevant proposals and recommendations received, and effective or draft, and compilation of conclusions and preparation of corresponding proposals; Legal advocacy – with the purpose of promoting the prevention of torture, organization of legal awareness work for the staff of the Office, members of the NPG, personnel of detention places, as well as persons detained in those places, students of relevant educational institutions and academies, preparation and distribution of related manuals; Public relations and international cooperation – the arrangement of exchange of information with local, regional and international organizations and foreign NPMs, mutual participation at events and organization of joint events, and the dissemination of information on the NPM’s activity in the mass media. Along with the abovementioned, it should be noted that the NPM’s activity has been interlinked with the Commissioner’s mandate to receive No 886 of 23 September 1994. (20.04. 2012); № 326-IVQD); The Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Making Amendments to “The Sample Regulations of Open and Closed Special Correctional Institutions approved by Decision No 65 of the Cabinet of Ministers dated 13 May 2003” (04.07.2012, № 148); The Decision of the Plenary Board of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan on “Making Amendments to the Internal Disciplinary Rules of Penitentiary Institutions approved by Decision No. 7 of 29 December 2011 of the Plenary Board of the Ministry of Justice” (13.07.2012, № 3-N); The Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the rights and freedoms of individuals kept in detention facilities (22.05.2012, № 352-IVQ); The Decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on “The Rules for Safeguarding and Escorting Persons Detained in Temporary Detention Places of Police Bodies” (14.01.2013, № Q1-001-13) 12 UN Human Rights Council, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Azerbaijan, 5 July 2013, A/HRC/24/13, para.103. 10