• The scope of tasks and issues covered by the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in many cases requires specialist knowledge and professional experience. Therefore, since 2016 the CHR’s Expert Committee on the National Preventive Mechanism has been in operation. In 2018 the NMPT Committee met twice in its full composition. The NMPT experts also took part in the regional debates and in the 2nd Congress on Human Rights. • In order to improve their professional qualifications, all members of the NMPT participated in a training course on the monitoring of direct coercion measures used in places of detention visited by the NMPT3. Financing of the NMPT Expenditures on the activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture are covered from the state budget allocation received by the CHR. According to the Annual Report on the Activity-Based Expenditures of the State Budget and of the European Funds Budget, in 2018 the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights disbursed 2.265.537.93 PLN. Methodology of the NMPT’S work The National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture may visit all places in Poland where people are deprived of liberty, that is such establishments (public or private ones) where persons are or may be deprived of their liberty either by virtue of an order given by a public authority or at its instigation or with its consent or acquiescence. THE NATIONAL MECHANISM FOR THE PREVENTION OF TORTURE CARRIES OUT PREVENTIVE VISITS WHICH DO NOT RESULT FROM COMPLAINTS. SUCH VISITS ARE UNANNOUNCED. 3 The training was organized by ODIHR/OSCE in cooperation with the experts from the Omega Research foundation and the University of Exeter. Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Poland in 2018 9