CAT/C/48/3 regular visits, follow-up visits, establishing initial contact with new States parties and engaging with NPMs can all be accommodated. The Subcommittee has also adopted a methodology regarding the dialogue arising from its visits, and has established working groups which will be responsible for leading and co-ordinating the Subcommittee’s activities in relation to countries already visited by the Subcommittee. This mechanism will also help Subcommittee members keep abreast of the situation in different countries. As part of this methodology, the Subcommittee has also decided to consider issuing invitations to representatives of States parties to meet with the Subcommittee where there is a reply outstanding. 42. In an effort to develop jurisprudence and provide guidance, the Subcommittee has formulated a working method whereby the Subcommittee, based on visits, reports and correspondence, identifies issues requiring clarification. To this effect, during 2011, the focus has been placed on the importance of human rights education in the prevention of torture, and on the correlation between corruption and the prevention of torture. Other issues that the Subcommittee wishes to highlight in this regard are mental health and detention, prevention of torture in prisons through the application of judicial procedural control and due process standards, and the correlation between legal aid, a system of public defence and the prevention of torture. Further, as OHCHR launched a Programme of Commemoration for the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development in 2011, the Subcommittee saw it appropriate to highlight the linkages between the right to development and the prevention of torture. 43. The expansion of membership has brought a new dynamic to the Subcommittee, and has paved the way for the Subcommittee to work in ways that were not practically possible before. While the Subcommittee is hopeful that it will continue to move forward and grow stronger in fulfilling its mandate, it wishes to note that time and logistical and budgetary constraints constitute the greatest challenge to formulating innovative ways through which all members can be utilized in the best possible manner to fulfil the mandate of the Subcommittee. 44. Current levels of resourcing means that States parties to the Optional Protocol, currently at 61, might only receive a full visit once in 20 years. This is of grave concern to the Subcommittee, as conducting visits to States parties is one of the most visible and effective ways through which it is able to perform its preventive mandate. These challenges also mean that the Subcommittee is unable to engage and work with NPMs, vital partners in the prevention of torture, in the most effective manner. 45. The Subcommittee would also like to highlight the fact that fiscal constraints mean that the secretariat of the Subcommittee, which has a direct impact on the quality of the work the Subcommittee is able to produce, is grossly understaffed at present. The major expansion in the size of the Subcommittee and in its workload has not been matched by a similar expansion in the secretariat, which has only increased marginally. This means that the secretarial support base for the Subcommittee is even more stretched than previously and is set to remain so, despite the creativity of the Subcommittee in formulating new ways to function more efficiently. The Subcommittee therefore encourages States parties to consider supporting the Secretariat by providing staff on secondment, as some States parties have done in the past. B. The establishment of working groups 46. In 2011 the Subcommittee decided that a working group on security matters should be established under the leadership of the Vice-Chair for Visits, Mr. Hajek. This decision was made in order to address issues arising from field experience in relation to security arrangements, including the role of security officers, and was informed by the recognition 12