Section one Context
Jurisdiction
DETENTION
SETTING
England
Wales
Prisons and YOIs
HMI Prisons with
CQC and Ofsted
HMI Prisons
with HIW
Scotland
HMIPS with CI
and SHRC
IMB
Police custody
Court custody
Northern Ireland
CJINI and HMI
Prisons with RQIA
IMBNI
HMIC and HMI Prisons
HMICS
CJINI with RQIA
ICVA
ICVS
NIPBICVS
HMI Prisons & Lay Observers
HMIPS
CJINI
Children in secure
accommodation
Ofsted ( jointly
with HMI Prisons
in relation to
secure training
centres)
Children (All settings)
CCE
Detention under mental
health law
CQC
Deprivation of liberty3
and other safeguards in
health and social care
CQC
Immigration detention
RQIA
CSSIW
CI
CJINI
CI
HIW
HIW
CSSIW
MWCS
RQIA
CI and MWCS
RQIA
HMI Prisons
IMB
Military detention
HMI Prisons and ICVA
Customs custody facilities
HMIC, HMI Prisons and HMICS
The essential requirement of OPCAT – that
all places of detention are independently
monitored – is fulfilled by individual members
of the NPM or by members working in
partnership with one another. Detailed findings
relating to the treatment and conditions of
detainees are published in the inspection or
annual reports of each NPM member.
The NPM’s biannual business meetings are its
main forum for members to share findings,
best practice, experiences and lessons from
monitoring different types of detention and
different jurisdictions. The NPM business
plan and other decisions for members are
taken at these meetings. This year, business
meetings were held in June 2014 (Belfast),
November 2014 (Bridgend, Wales) and
March 2015 (London).
NPM coordination
Coordination is essential to the full and
effective implementation of OPCAT in the
UK, given the scale and complexity of the
UK NPM’s unusual multi-body structure. Each
NPM member has a different mandate,
powers and geographical remit and sets its
own priorities for detention monitoring as
well as contributing to joint NPM priorities.
3 Deprivation of liberty legal safeguards apply only to England and Wales but organisations in Scotland and Northern Ireland
visit and inspect health and social care facilities where people may be deprived of liberty.
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