SECTION 2. 31 List of MIA authorities, units and special institutions visited in 2013 (regions breakdown) Region SMT City of Kyiv THF RDCM 1 1 SRCAA Autonomous Republic of Crimea CDLP Total 13 15 3 3 Vinnystya Region 1 1 2 Dnipropetrovsk Region 3 3 6 Zhytomyr Region 1 1 2 Transcarpathian Region 2 1 4 Zaporizhzhya Region 2 2 4 1 Ivanj-Frankivsk Region 1 Kyiv Region Kirovohrad Region 1 Luhansk Region Lviv Region 2 1 2 3 1 1 3 1 3 4 1 3 6 1 1 2 6 3 6 Mykolayiv Region Odessa Region 1 1 3 Poltava Region 2 1 Rivne Region 3 3 6 Ternopil Region 1 2 3 Kharkiv Region 3 3 6 1 1 2 7 Cherkassy Region Chernivtsy Region 3 2 Chernihiv Region 2 2 Total 9 30 2 2 3 7 53 96 In 2013 NPM also conducted follow-up visits to police authorities and special facilities, which made it possible to assess the quality of implementation of the earlier provided recommendations on the basis of previous visits. Despite continuous recommendations of the Ombudsman as to elimination of shortcomings and systemic violations that characterize the operation of the vast majority of authorities and special institutions subordinate to MIA both the repeat visits and the visits of earlier unvisited custodial settings have shown that that the leaderships of the Departments and Main Departments of the Ministry were mostly not resorting to any action for elimination of such shortcomings. The results of the visits reveal an extremely low level of police and institutional personnel’s knowledge of the current human rights legislation. Specifically, those who are directly in charge of arrests and detention are not properly familiar with the relevant provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine, Law of Ukraine “On the Ukrainian Parliament