The NCPT: an overview among the facilities subjected to regular oversight by the Commission. The main focus of the visits to those centres was the examination of living conditions and the monitoring of health care and treatment, the use of disciplinary measures, and the implementation of special protection measures for particularly vulnerable persons, such as women, children and unaccompanied minor asylum-seekers (UMAs). The Commission also conducted four inspection visits to psychiatric facilities, focusing in particular on adult and geriatric psychiatry, and reviewed whether the measures of restraint, including such measures as mechanical restraint and seclusion comply with human rights standards; it also reviewed the implementation of prescriptions of involuntary placement. In particular, it conducted a review as to the existence of treatment plans and with regard to the conditions for ordering treatments without consent or restrictions of freedom of movement. Furthermore, during the past year, the Commission held various meetings with relevant stakeholders in the area of healthcare in detention and initiated a pilot project for healthcare monitoring in detention facilities, which is funded by the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH). The Commission also conducted a study of border police measures for asylum seekers and suspected drug smugglers (body – packing), which included an unannounced inspection visit and various other investigations. It also requested responses from the Swiss Border Guard Corps and the cantons concerning the various legal and medical issues involved and held two meetings with senior officials from the Border Guard Corps. During the reporting year, the Commission also devoted efforts to the clarification of various questions of administrative law relating to the matter of the NCPT’s functional independence. To that end, it commissioned Prof. em. Walter Kälin and Prof. em. Manfred Nowak with the preparation of a legal opinion on this topic. In relation to that, the Commission also held various meetings with senior officials from the Federal Office of Justice. Activity Report NCPT 2017 7