NPM visiting team the Act on prevention of drug abuse and certain other acts. The team was appointed by the Minister of Justice. . Małgorzata Molak – rehabilitation pedagogue. A graduate of social rehabilitation at the Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw. She completed postgraduate studies in the field of psychological, pedagogical and legal preparation for work with difficult young people at the Alcide De Gasperi University of Euroregional Economy in Józefów. In 2009-2011, she was a social case worker for the VI Team of Case Worker Service for executing decisions concerning family and minors for the District Court for Warsaw-Żoliborz. She has been a staff member of the National Preventive Mechanism Team since September 2011. While working for the Office of Commissioner for Human Rights, she completed the third level of sign language course, with social profile. Moreover, she is working as a consultant-volunteer for a Helpline for persons experiencing emotional crises (116123). A student at the second year of training in cognitive-behavioural therapy for adults, held by a Centre of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy in Warsaw. Marcin Mazur – deputy Director of the National Preventive Mechanism Department in the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights. A lawyer, graduate of the Catholic University of Lublin. In 2011 he passed his solicitor’s exam and was accepted as a member of the Circuit Chamber of Legal Counsel in Warsaw. From 2003 to 2008, he pursued PhD studies at the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration in the area of legal science – penal law at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. In 2005 and 2006 he completed his postgraduate studies in the area of pedagogical preparation. Since 2004, he has been working in the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights – initially at the Executive Penal Law Team, later, in the National Preventive Mechanism Team. Author of several articles on penal law. Wojciech Sadownik – a lawyer, graduate of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin and a Study of Foreign Politics of the Polish Institute for International Affairs. Previously e.g. with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Office for the Protection of Competition and Consumers. He has been a staff member of the National Preventive Mechanism Team at the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights since 2010. Estera Tarnowska – a lawyer and psychologist, graduate of the Unviersity of Gdańsk. In 2011, she completed her solicitor’s apprenticeship in Gdańsk. She has been working for the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights since 2007. Since 2008 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 Gdańsk. 79