CHAPTER 3. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR THE NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM IN UKRAINE IN 2014 3.1. Number and typology of places of detention in Ukraine. Dynamics of monitoring visits during 2012-2014 The total number of institutions that can be formally classified as places of detention in Ukraine is fluctuating. For instance, the number of military units decrease by twofold due to cancellation of draft – from 386 in 2013 to 158 in 2014. There has been a threefold decrease in number of shelters for children under the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine – from 42 in 2013 to 12 in 2014. At the same time, other types of facilities came in sight of the national preventive mechanism (NPM) in 2014 – narcological clinics and hospices that can also be considered places of detention. There is a separate formal questionnaire for each type of places of detention to be filled out by each member of a monitoring group. During 7 working days following the visit, a detailed report is prepared containing description of identified violations of rights and freedoms and recommendations for mitigation. All reports are necessarily sent to the head of the relevant ministry or agency for appropriate response measures. Further, the NPM Department monitors implementation of recommendations provided based on visit findings. In addition to general visits, there are also thematic visits for the purposes of detailed examination of a particular issue. For instance, the staff of the NPM Department in cooperation with experts of the Association of Independent Monitors and Kharkiv Institute for Social Research with the support from UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) visited all 6 juvenile correctional facilities of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine (SPSU). Following monitoring visits, a Special report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the rights of children in detention facilities of the SPSU was developed. Table 1 provides official statistic on the number of places of detention obtained by the Secretariat of the Commissioner for Human Rights from relevant ministries and agencies, as well as qualitative data for monitoring visits during the past three years. 25