Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Poland in 2017 The Act on Patients’ Rights as well as the Patients Ombudsman highlight the issue of safety of healthcare procedures. The Regulation of the Minister of Health of 26 June 2012 on specific requirements to be met by premises and equipment of medical service providers113 does not require the installation in hospital wards of emergency call systems that can be accessed from patient rooms, bathrooms and other rooms used by patients. In view of the lack of such regulations, the Commissioner requested the Minister of Health to consider introducing relevant obligations under the law. In his letter dated 29 June 2017 the Minister of Health replied that the National Consultant in Psychiatry and the National Consultant in Youth Psychiatry had been requested to provide their opinions on the issue. According to their opinion, (...) hospital patients of psychiatric wards are persons whose physical condition makes it possible for them to move by themselves. Therefore, installation in such wards of the above-mentioned systems whose main task is to call a staff member to provide assistance does not seem grounded114. Good practices to share Cooperation between the Mental Health Centre in Słupsk and the Police School in Słupsk The cooperation covers training provision in those aspects of psychology and resident treatment that are important in the opinion of the Police School and the Mental Health Centre in Słupsk. Under the agreement between the two institutions, police officers conducted a series of training courses for the centre’s staff. The training subjects included methods of immobilizing aggressive persons by force and of restraining such persons, as well as a basic self-defence course, the use of direct coercion measures, approach to cases of domestic violence and the so-called blue card procedure. The Centre, in turn, trained police officers in the methods of dealing with people with mental disorders. Work was also started with the aim to draw up a practice-oriented manual on the subject, to be available to all police officers. 113 Dz. U of 2012, item 739 114 see: ref. no. KMP.574.4.2017 64