CONTENTS 1. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM IN 2017 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5   1.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5   1.2 Activities of the NPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8   1.3 Brief statistics on NPM visits and other activities in 2017 . . . . . . 9   1.4 Proposals and observations concerning existing or draft legislation . 10   1.5 Implementation of NPM recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . 13  1.6 International and other activities of the NPM . . . . . . . . . . . 14   1.7 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2. R  EVIEW OF NPM VISITS IN 2017 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3. REVIEW OF OTHER NPM ACTIVITIES IN 2017 . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 4. VISITS TO PLACES OF DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY . . . . . . . . . . . 37   4.1 Visits to retirement homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37   4.2 Visits to special social care institutions and units of combined institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55   4.3 Visits to psychiatric hospitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62   4.4 Visits to police stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66   4.5 Visit to the Aliens Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73   4.6 V  isits to residential treatment institutions, youth homes, and the work centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77   4.7 V  isits to prisons, their remote units, and Radeče Juvenile Correctional Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 5. R  ULES ON THE REIMBURSEMENT OF COSTS AND REMUNERATION OF PEOPLE FROM ORGANISATIONS CARRYING OUT DUTIES AND POWERS UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . 98   5.1 Claim for the reimbursement of costs and remuneration . . . . . 102   5.2 Decision on the reimbursement of costs and remuneration . . . . 104 6. OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NPM IN 2017 105 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT 3