1.3 Brief statistics on NPM visits and other activities in 2017
In 2017, the NPM visited 80 places of deprivation of liberty, as follows:
- 27 visits to detention rooms at police stations;
- 21 visits to prisons (including the juvenile correctional facility);
- 1 visit to locations of deprivation of liberty of aliens;
- 2 visits to psychiatric hospitals;
- 10 visits to special social care institutions;
- 15 visits to retirement homes;
- 4 visits to educational institutions treating children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural
disorders.
In 18 cases, the visits were thematic (we visited 13 prisons and 5 special social care institutions),
while we also conducted 18 review visits (during which we mostly focused on the implementation of
recommendations made following a previous visit). The majority of the visits were conducted without
prior notification, as only four visits were announced in advance (visits to one police station, one
psychiatric hospital, and one prison due to the attendance of foreign observers who were part of the
visiting group; a visit to Dob Prison, the largest prison in Slovenia, was also announced a day in advance
for better organisation of the visit).
More information on the NPM visits in 2017 is provided in the tables below and in the review of NPM
activities in the Appendix.
General data on visits in 2017
Residential
treatment
institutions
Retirement
homes
Special
social care
institutions
Psychiatric
hospitals
(including the
forensic unit)
Aliens Centre
+ Radeče CF
Prisons
Police
stations
67
Number of
visits
27
211
1
2
102
15
4
Number of
one-day visits
27
6
1
2
10
15
4
Number of
two-day visits
/
2
/
/
/
/
/
/
1
/
/
/
Announced
visits
1
2
(attended by Italian
representatives)
(attended by Italian
representatives)
Unannounced
visits
26
19
1
1
10
15
4
Regular visits
25
8
1
/
/
9
1
Review visits
2
/
/
2
5
6
3
Thematic
visits
/
13
/
/
5
/
/
In the morning 27
21
1
2
8
15
2
In the
afternoon
/
/
/
/
2
/
2
Attended by
an expert
/
2
/
/
/
6
1
(attended by an
international
expert)
6 13 visits were thematic, i.e. on the subject of vulnerable people in custody (the elderly, people with impaired mobility, etc.). A questionnaire on
this subject was sent to the prisons and their remote units on 23 May 2017, which had to be answered by 15 July 2017. After receiving the completed
questionnaires, visits were made to individual prisons and their remote units. A joint thematic report was prepared on these visits.
7 Special social care institutions also include units of retirement homes which care for younger people with mental health problems (units of
combined institutions). 5 visits were made in the context of a thematic visit.
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NPM IN 2017
NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT
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