7. Further activities to prevent ill-treatment Lively international co-operation We have already worked as a national preventive mechanism for 14 years. We are happy to share our experience, but also need new inspiration. For this reason, we also participated in several meetings with our foreign colleagues in 2019, deepened co-operation with the Austrian NPM and welcomed new interns from Ukraine. In the area of monitoring of forced returns of foreigners to their home countries, we co-operate with the FRONTEX European return agency and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development. Employees of the Office provide training to persons tasked with monitoring expulsions in other countries and they monitor return operations personally as well. We assisted the Government in planning measures in response to the CPT report In 2019, the Government of the Czech Republic received a report on the visit performed by the CPT. The report comprised a detailed statement on the situation in police detention, prisons, psychiatric hospitals and social care homes. The Government was obliged to respond specifically to each of the several dozen recommendations and, where appropriate, promise to adopt remedial measures. We commented on the initial draft response prepared by the Ministries. As a result, the final response of the Government was more accurate, followed up on the dialogue led by the Government with the Committee in 2015 and also yielded a list of specific tasks for the ministries concerned. CPT report and the Government’s response Resolution of the Government and List of Tasks for the Ministries Automatic publication of CPT reports In 2019, the Government decided to ask the CPT to apply the regime of automatic publication of reports. This means that the Government will no longer be required to make separate decisions in this regard and, based on agreement with the Office of the Government, the CPT will publish the reports directly. This is an important step, expressing the commitment of the Czech Republic to work transparently to prevent ill-treatment. CPT website For the third time, the “Yellow Ribbon Run” race held within the Prague Marathon took place under the Defender’s auspices. The philosophy of the race subtitled “Run Away from Prejudice” is to point out problems in integrating prisoners in civil life after they are released. This race has already been instrumental in securing jobs to hundreds of former convicts. The picture shows our relay team, which improved its last year’s ranking by 32 places with a time of 1:55:25. 23