Organisational matters CPT secretariat 106. The 12-month period covered by this General Report has been unfavourable from a staff standpoint. In February 2009, a highly-experienced staff member, Borys Wódz, left the CPT’s secretariat to take up the post of Special Representative of the Secretary General to Georgia. Shortly before, another administrator occupying a “position” in the Committee’s Secretariat, Kristian Bartholin, left following his appointment to a post elsewhere in the Organisation. In addition, there has been no progress towards reinforcing Divisions 2 and 3 with a B4 official each; on the contrary, the B4 post which had been assigned some considerable time ago to Division 2 was transferred elsewhere earlier this year, without ever having been filled. 107. The loss in quick succession of two administrators (out of a total of 14 staff members, including the Executive and Deputy Executive Secretaries, directly involved in visits) has inevitably had a negative impact on the visit programme for 2009. And the difficulties have been compounded by the impossibility of replacing either of them by permanent officials. Mr Wódz having been seconded to his current functions, his previous post in the CPT’s Secretariat must be left open for his return; consequently, the post can only be occupied by staff working on short fixed-term contracts. Given the limited duration of any “position”, the same is true of staff appointed to replace Mr Bartholin. 108. The CPT recognises that there is no easy solution to the problems raised for departments in Strasbourg when staff members are seconded to other duties in the field. However, in view of the permanent nature of the CPT’s activities, the Committee considers that all staff members in its Secretariat should be appointed to posts. To assign a “position” to the CPT’s Secretariat involves the risk of making a considerable investment in training a staff member for work with the Committee only to see the person concerned then leave, simply because a post becomes available in another department. This is precisely what happened in the second case referred to in paragraph 106. The CPT must therefore request that the above-mentioned “position” in its Secretariat be either transformed into a post or exchanged with a post from elsewhere in the Council of Europe. 109. Further, the CPT calls upon the Organisation to take the necessary measures to provide the two additional B4 officials required by the operational Divisions of its Secretariat. These staff members will be able to perform a range of support tasks, thereby ensuring that optimal use is made of the existing complement of administrators. 49