Report of the CHR on the Activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland 3. Structure of the Report The structure of the Report has been organised so as to reflect the results of work of the NPM Team in 2015 to the best possible extent. This year and in previous years, the following places of detention were visited (Article 4(1) of the OPCAT3): • pre-trial detention centres/prisons, • juvenile shelters/juvenile detention centres, • rooms for detained persons within Police organisational units, • Police emergency centres for children, • youth care centres, • Border Guard rooms for detained persons, • Military Gendarmerie rooms for detained persons, • psychiatric hospitals, • sobering-up stations, • social care centres. All these places were visited so as to check whether no torture or inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment is applied there. The NPM examined the following issues: treatment, living conditions, the right to health protection, the right to information, the right to contact with the outside world, the right to religious practices, the personnel’s training. This Report describes, among others, irregularities related to the implementation of the rights and freedoms of citizens. As not all places of detention were detected by the NPM with irregularities in all the areas referred to above, individual parts may differ from each other. If any issue (e.g. the right to religious practices) is not described, it indicates that the NPM did not find any violations in a certain type of establishments in this area. Each place of detention was described separately and it can be said that issues referred to collectively as systemic problems, which usually require legislative amendments and less often law enforcement practice, were given particular attention. During preventive visits, the NPM is also trying to pay attention to good sides of establishments which is reflected in the Report in Section: “Strengths” or “Good practices”. Part I of the Report describes the conclusions of visits to places of detention, while Part II of the Report – the other activities of the NPM, such as national and international cooperation, as well as certain problems that arise out of the implementation of the NPM mandate. 3 8 Any place under the jurisdiction and control of a given State where persons are or may be deprived of their liberty, either by virtue of an order given by a public authority or at its instigation, with its consent or acquiescence.