Section One Introduction Context information on OPCAT and the role of NPMs, it outlines the role of the individual members and their detention-related activities in the first year since designation. Already, some common themes such as concerns about the detention of those with mental health problems and the use of restraint have begun to emerge. We hope this report helps to provide an overview of the state of detention in the UK and our efforts to prevent ill-treatment. In future years, I hope we will be able to work together to build on this foundation to strengthen and develop these preventive mechanisms. during its first year and who worked tirelessly to protect the rights of detainees. I would also like to thank the Human Rights Implementation Centre at the University of Bristol for their support of the NPM during its first year. Finally, we hope that this first annual report addresses some of the complexities of our NPM in the UK. We hope it will be of interest to all those concerned with the treatment of detainees and their conditions of detention. Despite the broad scope of the UK NPM, there nonetheless remain places of detention which are not covered by designated members. This has prompted us to make our first collective recommendation: that the UK government identifies any places of detention not visited by the NPM and ensures that those gaps are addressed. On behalf of the 18 members of the UK NPM, I would like to thank my predecessor, Dame Anne Owers, who led the NPM Nick Hardwick Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons 5