legislative acts and international documents the country has acceded to, as well as the rights and duties of the NPM. Taking into consideration that persons who are in trouble with the law, suspected or accused in the commission of a crime, and persons who are victims of a crime get primarily in contact with the police, a number of seminars have been held both in the capital and regions with the aim of increasing the police’s knowledge of human rights, treatment of detainees, as well as child rights and juvenile justice. In November-December 2009, on the eve of municipal elections, together with the MIA and Central Election Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Commissioner also took part in a series of regional seminar-meetings on “The Rights and Duties of the Police in the Election Process” organized for the senior staff of the district police office and departments of various cities and districts of the republic. At the events, that covered 58 districts and cities of the country in whole, discussions were held by detailed information on the requirements of the OPCAT being provided, and national and international norms that the police must strictly and irreversibly adhere to in their activities in order to avoid acts of torture and prevent such cases were once more brought to the participants’ attention. During the above mentioned events it became clear that police officers had little and scanty information about the OPCAT. It is therefore necessary to give broad information to the employees of law-enforcement bodies on the OPCAT, its ratification, the establishment of the NPM in Azerbaijan and its powers. Legal education events were also held in military unit No.N of the MD where persons sentenced to detention in a disciplinary military unit are held. At such events the members of the NPM Group delivered speeches to military men, gave information on the requirements of the relevant national and international norms, as well as the essence of the OPCAT and the set objectives, and answered the questions put to them. The Commissioner, within the legal education events carried out by her, has attached particular importance to increasing theoretical and practical knowledge of the employees of the Office, especially the members of the NPM Group in this field. The two-day seminar on the application of the OPCAT in the Republic of Azerbaijan and establishment of the NPM held 95