cooperation with the selected NGOs and the implementation of visits). Higher costs are also incurred
due to the need to improve the participation of medical experts in individual NPM visits. The use of
funds for the implementation of the duties and powers of the NPM is evident from the attached table.
Funds spent for the implementation of the duties and powers of the NPM in 2014-2017
NPM 2014
Salaries
NPM 2015
NPM 2016
NPM 2017
100,105
106,388
113,030
115,099
Cooperation with non-governmental organisations
4,367
11,666
11,435
9,716
Cooperation of medical experts
5,580
5,105
1,720
3,592
690
1,799
2,686
1,012
110,742
124,958
128,871
129,419
Travel expenses
TOTAL
The table does not include material costs: rent, design and printing of the AR, translation, mobile telephony,
and other expenses.
In addition to the Deputy Ombudsman, Ivan Šelih, the head of the NPM, in 2017 the unit also included
Robert Gačnik (BA in Criminal Justice and Security, specialist in criminal investigation), councillor and
adviser to the Ombudsman (responsible in particular for visiting prisons, police stations, the Aliens
Centre, and asylum centres); mag. Jure Markič (LLB, MA), senior councillor and adviser to the Ombudsman
(responsible for visiting social care institutions and psychiatric hospitals); and Lili Jazbec (Professor of
special education for behavioural and personality disorders and institutional education science),
councillor and adviser to the Ombudsman (part of her work is a responsibility for visiting residential
treatment institutions). Ana Polutnik (LLB), who is responsible for visits to social care institutions (also
only under one part of her work obligations), was a new member of the unit in 2017.
Members of the National Preventive Mechanism (from left to right): Ana Polutnik, Lili Jazbec, Ivan Šelih – Deputy
Ombudsman and Head of the National Preventive Mechanism, mag. Jure Markič and Robert Gačnik.
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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