Report of the CHR on the Activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland participated in the visits of the National Preventive Mechanism within the jurisdiction of the Local Representative of the Commissioner for Human Rights in Katowice. Natalia Kłączyńska – a doctor of legal sciences of the University of Wrocław, university teacher. She has been working for the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights since 2005. She has participated in the visits of the National Preventive Mechanism within the jurisdiction of the Local Representative of the Commissioner for Human Rights in Wrocław. Dorota Krzysztoń – a forensic specialist, graduate of the University of Warsaw. A longtime civil servant, involved in the protection of civil rights and mediator in criminal matters. Between 1991 and 1996 she worked e.g. with the Senate Commission for Human Rights and the Rule of Law and the Office of Interventions of the Chancellery of the Senate (interventions and systemic actions in the matters concerning imprisoned persons and the Roma community in Poland). In the years 1997-2001 she was an adviser to subsequent ministries for parliamentary affairs in the government of Jerzy Buzek. She also worked with the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development and the Comartin training company. She has been with the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights for a dozen or so years, during which she e.g. held the position of the plenipotentiary of the Commissioner responsible for crime victims. Currently, she is a staff member of the National Preventive Mechanism. Member of several NGOs, including Poland-Ukraine Forum, Polish Mediation Centre, Polish Association of Legal Education. Rafał Kulas – lawyer by education, graduate of the Faculty of Law at the Ryszard Łazarski Higher School of Commerce and Law in Warsaw (2010 diploma). Between January 2011 and 2015 he was a fiscal prosecutor at the Tax Office in Wołomin, working on preliminary investigations in fiscal offences and infractions, and standing before common courts as a public prosecutor. Since 2015, a staff member of NPM at the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights. Marcin Kusy – a lawyer, graduate of the Catholic University of Lublin and of the School of Human Rights and Freedoms at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has extensive knowledge of American law; holder of a certificate of Chicago Kent College of Law. Interested in case law of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and anti-discrimination law. He has been a staff member of the National Preventive Mechanism Team at the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights since 2008. Currently a student of the European Academy of Diplomacy. Justyna Lewandowska – Director of the National Preventive Mechanism Department in the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights. A lawyer, graduate of the University of Warsaw. In 2007, she completed the prosecutor’s apprenticeship in Warsaw, and since 2010 she has been a member of the Warsaw Bar Association. A long-time employee of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. When at the Foundation, she focused on the rights of persons deprived of their liberty, of persons using psychoactive drugs, and of those living with HIV/AIDS. In 2007 and 2008, she was a member of the team working to amend 78