Cooperation with state authorities and non-governmental organisations 1. Cooperation with state authorities and non-governmental organisations In January 2015, the representatives of the National Preventive Mechanism conducted a training course for police officers serving at the rooms for detained persons or persons brought to sober up (PDR), informing NPM about their actions in the area of preventing torture and inhumane and degrading treatment, or punishments, at the police rooms for detained persons and explaining all and any doubts concerning the recommendations that are issued by NPM. On 3 March 2015, a working meeting of the representatives of the National Preventive Mechanism, the head of the Division for Executive Penal Procedure at the Penal Law Team with the deputy director general of the Prison Service, the representative of the Penitentiary Office of CBPS, and the representatives of the Ministry of Justice was held at the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights. The meeting focused on discussing the conclusions from the thematic Report168 of the representatives of the National Preventive Mechanism, which is a summary of the thematic inspections conducted between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2013. On 18 June 2015 the representative of NPM attended the workshops entitled Rozdwojenie rzeczywistości (Reality split), which was organized at the Office of a Local Representative of the Commissioner for Human Rights in Katowice. During the workshops, a presentation entitled Prawo a rzeczywistość, czyli problematyka przymusu bezpośredniego oraz przyjęcia do szpitala psychiatrycznego bez zgody (Law and reality: the issue of coercive measures and admission to a psychiatric hospital without consent) was held and the binding legal provisions were discussed. On 9 July, the Deputy Commissioner for Human Rights, dr Ryszard Czerniawski, and the staff members of the NPM Team, met with the representatives of the Central Board of the Prison Service in order to work out a permanent formula for contacts between both institutions, to indicate any potential areas of cooperation and sharing experiences. Discussions also concerned the issues related to executing the imprisonment sentences, in particular in the light of the revision of the Executive Penal Code. Between 16 and 17 September 2015, a representatives of the NPM team attended the VI Congress of Directors of Youth Sociotherapy Centres. During the Congress, which focused on security at YSC, the representative presented the most important findings of NPM from inspections held in these facilities. The results of the inspections at the shelters for minors and the juvenile detention centres, as well as the international standards concerning detained juveniles, were discussed The inspections of the National Preventive Mechanism at the therapeutic wards for persons with non-psychotic disorders or with mental disabilities as well as centres for persons remanded in custody. 168 71