Institutional training and dissemination activities 196. With regard to the dissemination and circulation in 2016 of the competences, operation and performance of the NPM, experts from the unit have taken part in the following activities: - - - - - - Course on foreign national detention centres, organised by the Training and Refreshment Division of the National Police Force. Course on access to officer positions given at the Officer’s Academy of the Civil Guard in San Lorenzo del Escorial (Madrid). Conferences arranged by the Observatory of the Criminal System and Human Rights, University of Barcelona: “15-year observation of the criminal system: new tools and proposals for the defence of human rights”. Jurisdictional Protection Course on Human Rights in Border Territories, arranged by the General Council of the Judiciary. Conference entitled “Rights While Countering Terrorism: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions”, arranged by the Council of Europe and the European Network for Human Rights (Paris). Conferences on Hospital Custody Units and healthcare provided to prison inmates, arranged by the Andalusian Ombudsman. 4th conference on persons with intellectual and developmental disability and the criminal system, arranged by the “Plena Inclusión” Association in conjunction with the Bar Association of Salamanca, with the participation of “Programmes for treatment at prison facilities. A brief approach to the situation of intellectually disabled persons”. Seminar arranged by the University of Barcelona, “The right to health in prisons: monitoring of infectious diseases”, further to the European research project entitled “Improving Prison Conditions by Strengthening Infectious Disease Monitoring”, carried out by Harm Reduction International. Training workshop on devices to control the forced return of third party nationals, illegally present in European Union territory, arranged by the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of European Union Member States (FRONTEX) and by the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (FRA), Warsaw (Poland). 7th National Congress of the United Association of the Civil Guard (AUGC), Madrid. ERA Seminar on the Impact of Detention on Prisoners, Madrid. Workshop on the Implementation of Directives related to the right of defence in criminal proceedings, arrange by the Spanish Pro-Human Rights Association (APDHE), Madrid. 197. The NPM collaborates with human rights organisations in other countries, arranging workshops on the Spanish NPM’s mandate and activity. In 2016, a work meeting was held with a Delegation of the Korean Committee for Human Rights, during which a visit was made to inspect Prison Facilities Madrid II, in Alcalá de Henares. 131