CONTENTS 1 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM . . . . . . 5   1.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5   1.2 Act ratifying the Optional Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5   1.3. Activities of the NPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6   1.4 Realisation of NPM recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10   1.5 International and other activities of the NPM . . . . . . . . . . . 11   1.6 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2 REVIEW OF NPM’S VISITS IN 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3 REVIEW OF OTHER NPM’S ACTIVITIES IN 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 4 VISITS TO PLACES OF DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY . . . . . . . . . . . 26   4.1 Visits to retirement homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26   4.2 Thematic visits to institutions detaining persons with mental disorders . . . . . . . . . . . . 60   4.3 Visits to special social care institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65   4.4 Visits to psychiatric hospitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71   4.5 Visits to residential treatment institutions and youth homes . . . . 91   4.6 Visits to police stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108   4.7 Visits to prisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146   4.8 Visit to the Aliens Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169   4.9 Visits to other centres for refugees/migrants . . . . . . . . . . 174 5 UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT . . . . . . . 181 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NPM IN 2016 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT 3