1  IMPLEMENTATION OF DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM IN 2013 . . . . 7 1.1 Visits to social care institutions (residential homes for the elderly) . . 19 1.2 Control visit to the Aliens Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 1.3 Visits to institutions for the care and education of children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders . . . . . 65 1.4 Visits to prisons, a juvenile prison and a youth detention centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 1.5 The visits to police stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 1.6 Visit to the Idrija psychiatric hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 1.7 Review of the Activities of the NPM in 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 1.8 Review of the Visits of the NPM in 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 2 CONVENTION AND PROTOCOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 2.1 UN CONVENTION against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment . . . . . . . . 151 2.2 OPTIONAL PROTOCOL to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment . 171 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NPM IN 2013 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT 7