CAT/C/SWE/CO/6-7 The State party should ensure that adequate protection measures exist and are given effect to in the case of children seeking asylum or migration, including better monitoring of the persons into whose care a child is placed. Use of coercive and intrusive measures in psychiatric hospitals 13. The Committee values the steps taken by the Government to reduce the use of coercive measures and to ensure the safety of patients in psychiatric institutions and hospitals. However, the Committee remains concerned at: (art. 16) (a) The widespread use of coercive and intrusive measures, such as physical restraints and solitary confinement, including for young patients; (b) The incompleteness of the registration system and proper safeguards for the use of electroshock therapy; (c) The lack of effective and impartial investigation of the excessive use of restrictive measures. The State party should: (a) Use restraints and solitary confinement as a measure of last resort, for the shortest possible time and under strict medical supervision; (b) Introduce an integral registration system and appropriate safeguards for administering electroshock therapy; (c) Ensure effective monitoring of the conditions in psychiatric institutions; (d) Provide training to medical and non-medical staff on methods of nonviolent and non-coercive care. Investigations 14. The Committee is concerned at reported cases of ill-treatment and excessive use of force by the police, the lack of independent, impartial and effective investigations of such incidents and the absence of an independent body for investigation of complaints of police misconduct. The Committee notes that a Department of Special Investigations, with autonomous standing, will be established in 2015 within the police at the national level, including seven regional investigation units (arts. 12, 13 and 16). The Committee recalls its previous recommendation (CAT/C/SWE/CO/5, para. 18) and urges the State party to ensure prompt, impartial and effective investigation by an independent body into all allegations of ill-treatment and excessive use of force by law enforcement officials. Hate crimes 15. While noting the priority consideration given by the Equality Ombudsman and the National Police Board to combating and preventing hate crimes, the Committee remains concerned at reports of violence and criminal acts motivated by hatred towards minorities and other vulnerable groups in Sweden, including Muslims, Afro-Swedes, Roma and Jews, as well as persons belonging to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. In that context, the Committee is concerned at a series of violent attacks in Malmö and at the low level of compensation paid to thousands of Roma Swedes, whose names were registered by the police in southern Sweden owing to their ethnicity. The discrepancy between increased reports to the police of hate crimes and the decrease in the number of preliminary investigations and convictions is a matter of concern. According to reports before the Committee, during 2007, 155 cases of agitation against ethnic minorities were 5