NPM visiting team Estera Tarnowska – a  lawyer, psychologist, graduate of the University of Gdańsk. In 2011, she completed her solicitor’s apprenticeship in Gdańsk. Employed in the Office of the Human Rights Defender since 2007. Since 2008, she has participated in the visits of the National Preventive Mechanism within the jurisdiction of the Field Plenipotentiary of the Human Rights Defender in Gdańsk. Sławomir Tkacz – a doctor of law, academic researcher at the University of Silesia. He completed prosecutor’s apprenticeship. Since 2007, employee in the Office of the Human Rights Defender. He has participated in the visits of the National Preventive Mechanism within the jurisdiction of the Field Plenipotentiary of the Human Rights Defender in Katowice. Joanna Klara Żuchowska – a doctor of medical sciences, second degree specialist in internal medicine. Practicing physician between 1961 and 2011. Co-author of the book “Myocardial Infarction” and 12 works issued in specialist Polish and foreign journals. A graduate of the School of Human Rights at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. Co-author of the publication Prawa człowieka w szpitalach psychiatrycznych i domach opieki społecznej [Human Rights at Psychiatric Hospitals and Nursing Homes] (Reports, Evaluations, Opinions of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights No 17/1996). Between 1996 and 2001 involved in monitoring for the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. Since 2009 she has cooperated with the Office of the Human Rights Defender (since April 2012 she has been employed on a ¼ FTE basis). 111