SECTION 2. On consideration of the Ombudsman’s recommendations on elimination of shortcomings and of violations of human rights in the operation MIA authorities and units the Ministry conducted 77 internal investigations and held disciplinarily liable 208 officials of the city, district and line police units and special facilities, including 176 officers in medium and senior command positions. The management of MIA Regional Departments approved Plans of administrative and practical measures for elimination of identified shortcomings and further prevention of violation of human rights and freedoms in MIA operation. For purposes of proper review of and response to the violations identified during monitoring visits the NPM staff sent, in the year of 2013, 31 letters to the Prosecutor General’s Office and 6 letters - to the Regional Prosecutor’s Offices. In furtherance of recommendations made during 2013 MIA discontinued the operation of one special facility for detainees subjected to administrative arrest, of 25 temporary holding centers and of 113 premises for apprehended and detained persons at police units – as such that fail to meet the requirements of the domestic and international standards. Persons who are held at MIA special facilities are at present receiving parcels also on weekends and holidays. Administrative arrestees at their special facilities can now receive visits (as per MIA Public Order Department’s official telegram of September 9, 2013, No. 10/3-6118). At the temporary holding facility of Odessa MIA Regional Department (RD) all service documentation is properly maintained and the conditions of detention have become 59 satisfactory. Proper sanitary and living conditions were reached and are further provided at the temporary holding facilities of Zhytomyr, Mukacheve, Svitlovodsk and Ivanivka city and district police units of, respectively, Zhytomyr, Transcarpathian, Kirovohrad and Odessa MIA RDs. Visits to Zdolbuniv district police (Rivne Region) and of city and district police units in Ivano-Frankivsk, Odessa and Chernivtsy Regions have shown a proper level of availability of medication and equipment. The administration of Kostopil temporary holding facility (Rivne Region) during renovation works took into account the Ombudsman’s recommendations made earlier during the visits of other such facilities in that Region and of Korets District police. In particular, toilets were furnished with semiautomatic flushes, and cells – with radio transmitters, alarm buttons and TV antennas. Unfortunately, monitoring visits have demonstrated that elimination of systematic deficiencies mostly occurs only in the visited authorities and units. Visits to the earlier unvisited custodial settings again reveal the typical shortcomings that the Ministry of Internal Affairs was repeatedly requested to eliminate in the light of relevantly provided recommendations. In order to analyze the status of implementation of the recommendations on elimination of the deficiencies revealed during monitoring visits and to validate the accuracy of information about their elimination in the earlier visited facilities and police units the NPM staff in 2013 conducted 11 follow-up visits. Such follow-up visits showed accomplished positive changes specifically, improved