Overview of the National Preventive Mechanism Number of visits in 2019 in the individual Laender Vienna 128 Lower Austria 99 Styria 61 Upper Austria 54 Tyrol 53 Carinthia 37 Salzburg 31 Burgenland 21 Vorarlberg 21 Total 505 The observations of the commissions are documented in detail in visit reports and recorded in a database. The commissions criticised the human rights situation on 380 visits to institutions and on 11 police operations. No grounds for criticism only occurred on 114 visits (92 institutions and 22 police operations). Deficits found on around 77% of the visits All in all, it can be said that deficits were found in 77% of the visits. The observation of police operations resulted in criticism less frequently than the monitoring of institutions and facilities (33% compared to 81%). The AOB examines these cases based on the observations of the commissions and contacts the competent ministries, supervisory authorities and also the institutions and facilities themselves in order to effect improvement. Proportion of visits in 2019 with or withour criticism Monitoring of institutions and facilities Observation of police operations Visits in total with criticism without criticism 81% 19% 33% 67% 77% 23% 14