Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2012 9. NPM visiting team (in alphabetical order) Magdalena Chmielak – until the end of May 2012 deputy Director of the Team “National Preventive Mechanism” in the Office of the Human Rights Defender. A lawyer, graduate of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw and post-graduate in “Social rehabilitation” at the Department of Rehabilitation Psychopedagogy of the Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw. A trainee solicitor since 2011. Since 2009 until the end of May 2012, an employee of the National Preventive Mechanism in the Office of the Human Rights Defender. Karolina Chytła-Goral – a  social pedagogue, graduate of the Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw. Since 2010, employed in the Office of the Human Rights Defender, an employee of the National Preventive Mechanism. Bogumił Furche – a lawyer, trainee solicitor, graduate of the University of Gdańsk. Since 2008, employee of the Office of the Human Rights Defender. He participates in the visits of the National Preventive Mechanism within the jurisdiction of the Field Plenipotentiary of the Human Rights Defender in Gdańsk. Zenobia Glac-Ściebura – social pedagogue and revalidation pedagogue – oligophrenopedagogy, graduate of the Ateneum-University in Gdańsk as well as of the Kujawy and Pomorze University in Bydgoszcz. Since 2007, employee in the Office of the Human Rights Defender. Since 2011, she has participated in the visits of the National Preventive Mechanism within jurisdiction of the Field Plenipotentiary of the Human Rights Defender in Gdańsk. Aleksandra Iwanowska – a doctor of law, graduate of the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Philology at the University of Bialystok with major in Russian philology with English language. Since 2012, she has been a member of the Team of the National Preventive Mechanism in the Office of the Human Rights Defender. Justyna Jóźwik – a graduate of the Institute of Social Prevention and Rehabilitation at the University of Warsaw, currently a doctoral student at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw. Since 2008, she has been an employee of the National Preventive Mechanism in the Office of the Human Rights Defender. 108