Report on the Performance of Activities of the National Preventive Mechanism for 2017 protection and that, after the decision on return was issued, he left the premises of the police station, with a note that no information was received from border crossings that the left the territory of the RC, as was ordered by the decision. By conducting further investigation at the police station and reviewing the case file we found that the reply of the MoI to the Ombudswoman was misleading, incomplete and inadequate, and subsequent explanations did not clarify the motivation for submitting such reply. Namely, the complainant was treated in accordance with the orders of the Illegal Migration Department of the General Police Directorate from 25 November 2016, which state that all irregular migrants apprehended within the territory, Afro-Asian citizens, who illegally enter Croatia from Serbia, and who are apprehended on the territory of the Zagreb Police Administration, must be escorted to the Tovarnik Police Station and Although there is a written record of the order issued by the Illegal Migration Department of the General Police Directorate from 25 November 2016, even after repeated requests based on the Act on the Ombudsman we did not receive it for review, and the Ministry of the Interior continuously denies its existence. handed over to the head of the shift on duty for further treatment. Unfortunately, although there is a written record of this order, even after repeated requests based on the Act on the Ombudsman, we did not receive the order, and the MoI repeatedly denied its existence. Additional instructions accompanying the order state that police stations are obliged to fill out the form no. 6 (declaration of identity for foreigners without identification documents) and return decision on the form no. 11, as well as to inform the Detention and Escort Unit on the need to escort the foreigner to the Tovarnik Police Station. A series of internal correspondence between the Zagreb Police Station and Zagreb Police Administration, as well as other documentation enclosed with the reviewed documents, show a systematic conduct in line with the given order, also confirmed by the review of documentation at the Detention and Escort Unit of the Zagreb Police Administration. However, the Tovarnik Police Station and Vukovar-Srijem Police Administration were not able to provide the Ombudswoman with the information on further treatment of migrants, or their approximate number, and by inspecting the Register of measures taken towards foreigners at the Tovarnik Police Station it was discovered that they were not even recorded. Therefore, the conduct of police officers could be monitored at the police station at the site of apprehension and at the Detention and Escort Unit of the Zagreb Police Administration, but not after the officer on duty from the Tovarnik Police Station took over the migrants. The time they were released was especially hard to determine. We were therefore unable to obtain the data on the number of migrants treated in accordance with the given order for the period from 25 November 2016 to 15 February 2017. In this way, during this time, all the foreigners to whom the return decision was issued with a deadline to voluntarily leave the RC, who were then transported in police vehicles (vans and even buses!) to the territory of another police administration that does not have the necessary documentation about their reception nor can provide any information, were deprived of liberty without legal basis by this police 40