 Amendments to the Regulations on Expert Council in relation to more active involvement of its members in selection and training of future pubic monitors;  Involvement of regional representatives and regional PR coordinators of the Commissioner for Human Rights into independent monitoring visits;  Development and implementation of electronic database of visits aggregating both reports on conducted visits and information of state authorities on measures following monitoring results, as well as electronic map of places of detention;  Development and implementation of social standards for persons in places of detention within the system of the Ministry of Social Policy etc. On 28-29 November 2014, at a working meeting of initiative members of the Expert Council, a comprehensive analysis of the Council’s activities was conducted along with identification of options for optimization of its work. In particular, the following was suggested: ­ development of an actual work plan for the Expert Council with concrete definition of responsibilities of each member in implementation of activities; ­ conduct of regular meetings of the Council (at least one per every quarter); ­ Improvement of communication between members of Expert Council; ­ Update the composition of the Expert Council by including representatives of the monitors’ community. 3.2. Activities of regional representatives and regional public relations coordinators of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights in the field of monitoring places of detention Regional representatives of the Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as regional PR coordinators of the Commissioner for Human Rights, who are performing functions of regional representatives in accordance with the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Commissioner for Human Rights and the Association of Ukrainian Human Rights Monitors on Law Enforcement (Association UMDPL), provided significant support implementation of the national preventive mechanism in 2014. In 2014, regional coordinators worked in ten regions: Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhya, Rivne, Luhansk, Ternopil, Kirovohrad, Mykolayiv, Poltava, and Odesa regions. Until 2014, regional coordinators visited various places of detention as monitors together with the staff of the Secretariat of the Commissioner or with the purpose of verifying specific information on human rights violations. However, given an extremely large number of places of detention (over 6000) and the subsequent need for increase in regularity and number of monitoring visits, in 2014 the Commissioner made 38