STATISTICS OF PROCEEDINGS The Chancellor of Justice is authorised to conduct inspection visits to institutions subject to his supervision. On this basis, the Chancellor may, for example, carry out inspection visits to prisons, military units, police detention centres, expulsion centres, reception or registration centres for asylum seekers, psychiatric hospitals, special care homes, schools for pupils with special educational needs, general care homes, children’s homes and youth homes. Usually the Chancellor notifies the supervised institution well in advance of his upcoming inspection visit and asks the institution to provide the necessary information prior to his visit. The Chancellor is also authorised to conduct unannounced inspection visits about which the supervised institutions are not notified in advance, or they are notified immediately prior to inspection. PART I Inspection visits PART II 7. • • • inspection of closed institutions – institutions where individuals are staying involuntarily and where their freedom may be restricted; inspection of open institutions – institutions where individuals are staying voluntarily (schools, children’s homes); inspection of administrative authorities – national or local government agencies, in respect of which compliance with good administrative practice is verified. During the reporting year, the Chancellor made 49 inspection visits, of which 17 were to closed institutions, 31 to open institutions, and 8 to administrative authorities (see Table 6). There were 26 unannounced inspection visits. PART IV Inspection visits are divided into three categories, depending on the agency or institution inspected: PART III The Chancellor as the national preventive mechanism for ill-treatment is obliged to inspect, in addition to national custodial institutions, all other institutions where freedom of individuals may be restricted. Table 5. Inspection visits conducted by the Chancellor of Justice 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Inspection visits to closed institutions 19 25 27 33 23 17 Inspection visits to open institutions 10 17 6 14 13 24 Inspection visits to administrative authorities 4 7 9 6 8 8 Total inspection visits 33 49 42 53 44 49 8 4 13 29 19 26 of which, unannounced inspection visits 85