When the visit is completed, a report is drawn up which describes all the findings and conclusions,
as well as recommendations for the body managing the visited establishment and for its supervisory
authorities. If the establishment’s managers do not agree with the recommendations, the NMPT
representatives request the supervisory bodies to issue their opinion and position on the matter. Such a
dialogue is conducted to explain the merits of the NMPT’s recommendations whose implementation
will strengthen the protection of the rights of persons deprived of their liberty at the visited place.
During the physical on-site visits, NMPT employees use the following measuring and recording
devices: CEM DT-8820 millimetres, Makita LD060P laser rangefinders and digital cameras.
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
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SOCIAL CAMPAIGN STATE WITHOUT TORTURE
For two years now, the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture, together with its
partners - the National Bar Council, the National Council of Attorneys at Law, the Council of Europe,
the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights/Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe, the Association for the Prevention of Torture and Kantar Millward Brown - has been conducting
a social campaign entitled State without Torture.
The campaign is addressed primarily to officers and representatives of establishments where
persons deprived of their liberty are or may be detained. In 2020, as part of the campaign, training
courses relating to torture prevention were carried out for employees of social rehabilitation
institutions10, as well as the Police11. Moreover, the NMPT established cooperation with the TZMO
foundation Razem Zmieniamy Świat [Together, We Change the World]. Within the series of free-ofcharge webinars for long-term care institutions, prepared by the organisation, NMPT representatives
twice conducted two trainings on the rights of residents of social care homes. They also presented the
methodology of the NMPT’s work and the main problems observed during its visits to such institutions.
During one of the webinars, attention was also paid to the restrictions resulting from the coronavirus
pandemic. In addition, the NMPT representatives conducted training sessions for university students12
who, in their future professional work, may come into contact with persons deprived of their liberty.
10
The trainings organised by the Centre for the Development of Education were attended by employees of juvenile
educational centres as well as representatives of institutions that educate specialist personnel for juvenile
institutions.
11
Police officers from the Kujawsko-Pomorskie region’s unit took part in the training.
12
The Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw.
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