STATISTICS OF PROCEEDINGS The Chancellor of Justice is authorised to conduct inspection visits to institutions subject to his supervision. On this basis, the Chancellor may, for example, carry out inspection visits to prisons, military units, police detention centres, expulsion centres, reception or registration centres for asylum seekers, psychiatric hospitals, special care homes, schools for pupils with special educational needs, general care homes, children’s homes and youth homes. Usually the Chancellor notifies the supervised institution well in advance of his upcoming inspection visit and asks the institution to provide the necessary information prior to his visit. The Chancellor is also authorised to conduct unannounced inspection visits about which the supervised institutions are not notified in advance, or they are notified immediately prior to inspection. PART I Inspection visits PART II 7. Inspection visits are divided into three categories, depending on the agency or institution inspected: • inspection of closed institutions – institutions where individuals are staying involuntarily and where their freedom may be restricted; • inspection of open institutions – institutions where individuals are staying voluntarily (schools, children’s homes); • inspection of administrative authorities – national or local government agencies, in respect of which compliance with good administrative practice is verified. PART III The Chancellor as the national preventive mechanism for ill-treatment is obliged to inspect, in addition to national custodial institutions, all other institutions where freedom of individuals may be restricted. During the reporting year, the Chancellor made 44 inspection visits, of which 23 were to closed institutions, 13 to open institutions, and 8 to administrative authorities (see Table 5). There were 19 unannounced inspection visits to closed institutions. Table 5. Inspection visits conducted by the Chancellor of Justice 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Inspection visits to closed institutions 18 19 25 27 33 23 Inspection visits to open institutions 5 10 17 6 14 13 Inspection visits to administrative authorities 5 4 7 9 6 8 Total inspection visits 28 33 49 42 53 44 6 8 4 13 29 19 of which, unannounced inspection visits 47