unclear and the Briceni Police Inspectorate received 10 recommendations (including cessation of activity), of which 10 were implemented, the activity of the isolator was stopped. In its work, the Council for the Prevention of Torture carried out 25 preventive visits and 1 monitoring visit (2 days)201, as follows: police inspectorates (18); penitentiaries (6); Temporary placement center for foreigners (1), psychiatric hospitals (2); judges (6); temporary placement centers for people with disabilities (1); The criminal investigation isolator of the National Anticorruption Center (1). A total of 35 places of detention visited. Following the preventive visits, there were submitted 3 visit reports with 69 recommendations in 2019, about 60% being implemented. For the first time, with the financial support of the People's Advocate Office, by contracting the profile experts, the members of the Council carried out a monitoring visit on the field of Penitentiary no. 16-Pruncul (penitentiary hospital). The report with recommendations was submitted to the authorities concerned, in particular to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Protection, the Ministry of Justice, the National Penitentiary Administration and Penitentiary no. 16-Pruncul. Likewise, the members of the Council met in 17 meetings. On June 21, 2019 at the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova, the People's Advocate publicly submitted the Thematic Report "The situation regarding persons retained and in police custody’’202. The event was attended by representatives of the MIA, GPI and territorial subdivisions, lawyers, NGOs, academia, anti-torture volunteers, etc. The People's Advocate reiterated the importance of respecting human and their rights and national and international regulations. At the same time, the Ombudsman emphasized the need to ensure the rights and safety of the person in the process of detaining and placing them in police custody. The report was prepared by national experts Mihaela Vidaicu and Elena Croitor, PhD in criminal law, following the visits and findings made by the People's Advocate Office during 32 documentary visits to police inspectorates, conducted in 2018. The report contains empirical-scientific findings on the phenomenon of procedural detention. The activity was carried out thanks to the financial support provided by the Department of Justice and Human Rights of the Soros Foundation- 201 202 1 day = 1 visit, according to the provisions of Art. 31 of Law 52/2014 on the People's Advocate (Ombudsman); http://ombudsman.md/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Raport-Situatia-persoanelor-retinute-RO-Web.pdf; 142