of the Interior until the end of June 2012; it had the responsibility of addressing any structural inadequacies within the police force in order to safeguard human rights and to recommend countermeasures to the Federal Minister of the Interior. The AOB’s Human Rights Advisory Council not only bears the same name but it is comparable to the former Human Rights Advisory Council of the Federal Ministry of the Interior in its composition of representatives of the Federal Chancellery and several Ministries, as well as NGOs. It is in part staffed with the same persons. This continuity ensures that the valuable experience of the former Human Rights Advisory Council, especially with regard to collection of data and the setting of standards concerning the security authorities, will be carried forward to the new body. Activity profile of the Human Rights Advisory Counci The purpose of the Human Rights Advisory Council is to contribute by way of its advisory activities to the proper wording of recommendations by the AOB when maladministration has been determined and Recommendations for investigative focal points and standards to help ensure that the AOB can properly utilise its options for action. It is also the task of the Human Rights Advisory Council to advise the AOB in defining investigative focal points to be applied as a top priority Austria-wide during preventive monitoring and control of institutions and facilities, in which persons are detained or where measures restricting their freedom can be implemented, as well as in the monitoring and control of institutions and programmes for persons with disabilities. Concurrently with defining these investigative focal points, the investigative standards that are to be applied by the Commissions and their visiting delegations as monitoring bodies of the AOB must be set out in advance. The intention is to guarantee consistent action. As a forum for dialogue for representatives of human rights organisations and the relevant Ministries, the Human Rights Advisory Council has the potential of adapting international human rights standards and incorporating them into national investigative standards. The uniform investigative standards then become the benchmark for the Human Rights Advisory Council when it advises the AOB in the determination of maladministration and a guideline for the assessment of whether the provided recommendations can attain the predefined human rights standards. 57