NPM, enabled the monitoring team of the NPM to visit special premises, have insight into existing records and provided all the responses and information of importance for the realization of the NPM mandate. In the reporting period, the cooperation of the Protector of Citizens with associations for protection and promotion of human rights and freedoms in the performance of the NPM activities was extended, through annexes on the memoranda on cooperation, to the period of one year, and these were signed with associations: Mental Disability Rights of Serbia (MDRIS), Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (YUKOM) and International Aid Network (IAN). With the aim of the establishment of the continual dialogue with regards to potential measures of implementation of the NPM recommendations and improvement of the cooperation in the field of the prevention of torture, individual meetings were held with high representatives of the Commission for the implementation of the standard of police actions in the field of the prevention of torture of the Ministry of Interior, Administration for Enforcement of Penal Sanctions, Commissariat for Refugees and Migration, Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs, as well as the representative of the Ministry of Health – Sector for Inspection. The NPM representatives participated in Skoplje at two meetings of the Southeastern Europe NPM Network 128. Topics of the meetings were: “Prevention of retaliation” and “Specific needs of minors at the institutions of detention”. Furthermore, two meetings were held by the Working group for asylum and migrants of the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI), in whose operation the NPM is involved. The representative of the NPM attended the training “Detention and alternative sanctions” in the Hague. On the occasion of the celebration of 30 year anniversary since the establishment of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, in Strasbourg, the meeting of the NPM states members of the Council of Europe was held to the topic of the provision of efficient implementation of protective measures for the purpose of the prevention of torture within first several hours of the police custody. At the working meeting of the NPM with representatives of civil society organizations, what is especially emphasized is the need to accomplish mutual cooperation in order to ensure effective approach of the persons deprived of liberty to the lawyer in first hours of police custody. ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM In the reporting period the Ministry of Interior, acting in compliance with the Rulebook on the conditions which the premises for detention should meet129, continued with the improvement of the conditions for the staying of persons detained at the premises for detention - the List of priorities for the adaptation of 130 premises at 24 policedepartments , seven premises for detention were adapted130, and there are works on adaptation of seven premises for detention initiated at the seat of Belgrade Police Administration . Most of police departments and police stations visited by the NPM do not have special premises for hearing of persons equipped with technical equipment for audio and/or visual recording, even though the existence of these premises is one form of preventive actions and NPM of the Republic of North Macedonia presided over the Network during 2019. “Official Gazette of RS“, no. 34/18. 130 In PA Valjevo, PA Pančevo, PA Požarevac, PA Kruševac and PA Čačak. 128 129 - 77 -