7. Further activities to prevent ill-treatment »»»»»»» 7. Further activities to prevent ill-treatment Prevention is a multilateral and multidisciplinary effort. We therefore give lectures, engage in debates and educate ourselves. We strive to build a long-term dialogue In 2019, the Public Defender of Rights and employees of the Office again met with the Director General of the Prison Service of the Czech Republic and public prosecutors of the Prosecutor General’s Office. After our visits to secure preventive detention institutions, we organised a roundtable with the directors and a wide range of experts, where we discussed our findings and recommendations. We organised two meetings on the current topics of institutional and protective education and two meetings for authorities involved in administrative expulsion and forced return of foreign nationals. We also participate in methodological meetings organised by the Ministries and the Prison Service. We disseminate the standard of prevention of ill-treatment Within regular teaching, our own training activities and participation in conferences, we ― trained 163 professionals working in long-term and psychiatric care and employees of regional authorities on issues of prevention of ill-treatment of people dependent on care and findings obtained through our visits to facilities; ― trained 70 prison physicians and public prosecutors in the standard of documenting and reporting evidence of ill-treatment; ― provided a lecture for participants in the Senior Academy of the Brno Municipal Police as to how they should defend themselves against ill-treatment; ― gave a lecture to students of social work, law and international relations, public guardians, Prison Service officers and workers in geriatrics and social services on the results of systematic visits and the standard of prevention of ill-treatment. We regularly contribute to professional journals Social Services and Czech Prison System, and occasionally also to the journal Social Work Magazine and other scholarly journals. We work to improve the professionality and quality of our visits The thematic focus on remand prisons and special regime homes required proper preparation of the programme of visits and training of our team. Our lawyers completed several internships in social services facilities and meetings in prisons. We organised training on the 22 topic of disability, communication of people with mental disabilities, methods of drafting reports and the legal standard prevention of ill-treatment. Our lawyers also completed a “bespoke” training by experts in the area of case law of the European Court of Human Rights.