Overview of the NCPT 4.3 Secretariat The NCPT Secretariat is responsible for organising the NCPT’s monitoring activities. It handles the organisational and conceptual details of the NCPT’s inspection and follow-up visits and drafts reports and position papers submitted to the federal and cantonal authorities. It maintains regular contact with other human rights bodies at both the UN and Council of Europe level as well as with other national preventive mechanisms (NPMs) abroad. Within ­Switzerland, it maintains contacts with federal and cantonal authorities and other relevant organisations. For administrative purposes, the Secretariat is assigned to the General Secretariat of the Federal Department of Justice and Police (GS-FDJP) and uses its personnel, financial, IT and translation services. It currently employs five part-time employees, who fill the equivalent of 3.3 full-time positions, and a graduate intern. During the 2020 reporting year, there were several staff changes. – – – – – – – – – Sandra Imhof, Head of Secretariat (until May) Livia Hadorn, Head of Secretariat (since July) Alexandra Kossin, Deputy Head of Secretariat and Re­search Associate for Monitoring Removals Lukas Heim, Research Associate for Monitoring Federal Asylum Centres Tsedön Khangsar, Research Associate, Health Care Project Agnes Meister, Administrative Assistant (until June) Simone Lerch, Administrative Assistant (since September) Céline Egli, graduate intern (until June) Rahel Brunschwiler, graduate intern (since July) 4.4 Budget The Commission’s overall annual budget in 2020 was CHF 900 600. Activity report NCPT 2020 29