the parliamentary ombudsmen’s opcat activities Dialogue is an important cornerstone of prevention. Among other things, the OPCAT unit has participated in the Police Authority’s conferences concerning detention facilities and has had conversations at these with representatives of the police service from all across Sweden. The unit has also had several meetings with representatives of SiS. Thematic focus The high number of inspections conducted in the initial years has provided a good foundation for how the ombudsmen can proceed with preventive efforts pursuant to OPCAT. One of the questions identified during inspections in the initial years was the situation of women who are deprived of their liberty. This led to the inspection of all the Prison and Probation Service’s prisons for women and of a number of clinics for compulsory psychiatric care in 2015 as part of a special theme. Lessons learned from this review will be presented in 2016 in a special report on women in prison. 19