National Preventive Mechanism Tenth Annual Report 2018–19 to develop. These ensure that the human rights principles of Participation, Accountability, Non-discrimination and equality, Empowerment and Legality (PANEL) are intertwined through each part of the prison inspection process. SHRC continued to work with HMIPS on its regular prison inspection regime. SHRC also submitted a response to the Committee against Torture’s review into the United Kingdom to capture the protection of people’s human rights in Scotland. Independent Custody Visiting Scotland (ICVS) volunteers carried out over 1,363 visits in 2018–19.101 Working with Police Scotland, ICVS identified ways to make independent custody visits more effective. A pilot ran in two custody centres in the West of Scotland. These pilots used ICVS ‘points of contact’ to improve the relationship with the on-duty custody sergeant, reducing the number of delays to visits and abandoned visits in these custody suites. Custody volunteers raised concerns around the issuing of the Letter of Rights to people in custody. Letter of Rights leaflets list the rights of people in police custody to ensure they are treated fairly by the police. Police Scotland has a statutory obligation to provide detainees with these leaflets under The Right to Information (Suspect and Accused Persons) Scotland Regulations 2014. Since these concerns were raised improvements have been made to the monitoring of this provision. Custody visitors now ask people in detention if they have received a Letter of Rights and whether they understand its content. In its monitoring work the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland highlighted increased use of compulsory powers under mental health and incapacity law, with particular concerns about the rise in detention of young people, particularly in adult services. It published analysis of the use of Place of Safety orders under the Scottish Mental Health Act by the police, with recommendations to improve consistency of practice in the future. That has led to further work reviewing local Psychiatric Emergency Plans. The Commission was heavily involved in work to review the investigation of deaths of patients in mental health services, which led to the Government asking it to develop a new system of review for deaths of detained patients. The Commission continued to highlight its concerns about the number of people with learning disabilities it visited who continued to be in hospital, often subject to detention, despite having been assessed as able to be supported in the community. Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland (CJINI) published two inspection reports on places of detention in 2018–19. Its inspection report on Maghaberry Prison was published in November 2018, and highlighted the encouraging levels of progress made in the prison since its previous inspection in 2015. The report concluded that the outcomes for men held were some of the best seen by CJINI in similar prisons in recent years. Throughout the year, CJINI made efforts to focus on monitoring the conditions in Maghaberry and organised a programme of regular inspections, reviews of progress visits and unannounced visits to the prison. 101 Scottish Police Authority, 2019, Annual Review 2018-19. Independent Custody Visiting Scotland, http://www.spa.police.uk/ assets/128635/293559/icvannualreview201819 [accessed 04/02/20] 40