29 4. List of domestic places of detention Pursuant to Article 20, Paragraph a) of the OPCAT, in order to enable the National Preventive Mechanism to fulfil its mandate, the States Parties to the present Protocol shall undertake to grant it access to “all information concerning the number of persons deprived of their liberty in places of detention as defined in article 4, as well as the number of places and their location.” Based on the data provided by the Government, by the middle of November 2014, my colleagues had compiled the list of places of detention as defined in Article 4 of the OPCAT. On December 13, 2016, referring to Article 20, Paragraph a) of the OPCAT, I sent letters to the heads of the governmental organs concerned requesting them to provide me, as at December 31, 2016, with all data on places of detention as defined in Article 4 of the OPCAT.58 Schedule 2 – Consolidated list of all places of detention under Hungarian jurisdiction as of December 31, 201659 Type Social care institutions Child protection services (locations provided by foster parents, without after-care beneficiaries) Juvenile correctional institution Penitentiary system Police Airport Police Directorate separately Healthcare: “closed or partially closed” psychiatric or addictology wards Guarded refugee reception centers Law enforcement (number of detainee waiting rooms as on the last workday of December 2016) Altogether 58 59 Number of locations Capacity Number of detainees 1,962 81,404 72,174 826 19,721 20,635 5 562 395 32 14,530 17,972 1,007 3,241 1,827 3 29 14 55 2,359 26 3 790 257 152 291 88 4,045 122,927 113,388 These data requests may be found in my Office under file number AJB-8858/2016. Except when indicated otherwise in the Schedule.

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