8 CONSOLIDATED REPORT The legislation regulating the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism (hereinafter – the NPM) in the Republic of Kazakhstan establishes the obligation of the Coordinating Council under the Commissioner for human rights to prepare the annual consolidated report of the NPM members on the results of preventive visits. This is the fourth consolidated Figure №1 Number of NPMM visits in 2017 report of the NPM. 582 preventive visits were carried out in 2017 by the NPM members including 24 special visits (see Figure 1). As statistics show, the number of preventive visits decreased by 98 visits in comparison with the previous year, which is associated with a reduction in the allocated budget. During the reporting year the NPM members (hereinafter NPMM) conducted 140 visits to temporary detention centres throughout Kazakhstan, 31pre-trial detention centres, 106 correctional institutions, 23 remand houses, 24 special reception centres, 21 centres for adaptation of minors, 7 special educational institutions, 36 psychiatric, 31narcological, 51 antituberculosis organizations, and 4 detention centres of NSC, 8 military detention/ confinement facilities, 56 police stations (including the premises of departments of internal affairs). Out of these 24 special rooms were visited: 17 correctional facilities, 6 pretrial detention centers, 1