Retirement Home Idila During the previous visit, the NPM made eleven recommendations. It was established that the home had observed almost all the recommendations (10) made by the NPM during its visit in 2014, and also (at least) partially realised them, which was commended. No new recommendations were made, but we pointed out the unaccepted recommendation, which was repeated, and we proposed that it be realised as soon as possible. Kranj Retirement Home During our previous visit in 2009, the NPM made seventeen recommendations. We established that the home had accepted one of these recommendations, which was not (fully) implemented. One of the recommendations was not accepted. However, it was commendable that the home had implemented as many as fifteen of the recommendations made upon the previous visit. Ten new recommendations were made, and all were accepted, according to the home’s response report. Trnovo Retirement Home During the previous visit in 2013, the NPM made sixteen recommendations. It was determined that ten recommendations had been accepted and realised and six had not, so we repeated them. Nine new recommendations were made, and all were accepted, according to the home’s response report. Five commendations were also given. Polde Eberl Jamski Retirement Home in Izlake During our previous visit in 2012, the NPM made six recommendations. We established that the home had accepted one recommendation, which had not been (fully) implemented. Five recommendations were implemented in full, which was also commended. Eleven new recommendations were made. According to the home’s response report, nine recommendations had been realised, one was accepted and would be implemented, and one recommendation was not accepted. Laško Retirement Home During the previous visit in 2015, the NPM made seven recommendations. We established that two recommendations had been observed and the majority (3) also realised, which was commended. Two new recommendations and seven commendations were made. The home’s response report had not been received as of the drafting of this Report, so we lack information regarding the response to the two new recommendations. 4.2 Thematic visits to institutions detaining persons with mental disorders On 17 and 18 September 2016, we visited several institutions detaining persons with mental disorders and examined special supervision wards in psychiatric hospitals, a secure ward of a (special) social care institution and dementia wards which, as we had already determined during previous visits, comply with the definition of secure wards as determined in the Mental Health Act (ZDZdr). These institutions are Vojnik Psychiatric Hospital, special social care institution Nina Pokorn Home in Grmovje, Zimzelen Retirement Home in Topolšica, Begunje Psychiatric Hospital, Jesenice Retirement Home and Dr Janko Benedik Home in Radovljica. The purpose of the NPM thematic visits to the institutions detaining persons with mental disorders was to answer a question about the scope of activities available to patients in special supervision wards of psychiatric hospitals or residents in secure wards of social care institutions on Saturdays and Sundays, when there were usually fewer members of staff in the said institutions. We wanted to establish: whether there were sufficient staff on these wards to implement the anticipated activities; what instructions were given by occupational therapists, who were usually absent at the weekend, and whether the activities were actually implemented (and were not mere dead letters). During the visits, the NPM also paid attention to signs suggesting that torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment occur in places of deprivation of liberty (as defined in Article 4 of the Act Ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment – MOPPM). Regarding the findings from the visits, the 60 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