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K. Ploom, R. Järvamägi and M. Allikmets attended the training course „Restraining
with medications” on 4 February.
N. Parrest, M. Allikmets, I-I. Määrits, K. Albi, J. Konsa, M. Sarv, A. Aru, A. Kivioja
and K. Muller attended the training course „Means of restraint“ on 30 May.
M. Allikmets and K. Muller participated in the roundtable discussion organised by the
Ministry of Social Affairs on the topic of placement of individuals in a social welfare
institution under a court ruling on 4 June.
N. Parrest, A. Kivioja, M. Allikmets, K. Muller and K. Ploom attended the training
course „Dementia and dealing with dementia” on 26 August. Representatives of the
Health Insurance Fund, the Ministry of Social Affairs and service providers also
attended the training course.
M. Allikmets, A. Kivioja and M. Sarv participated in the roundtable discussion
„Handbook for customer staff to deal with damaging behaviour” on 15 September.
N. Parrest, A. Kivioja, I-I. Määrits, J. Konsa, K. Albi, K. Žurakovskaja-Aru, R. Sults,
A. Aru, A. Kivioja, M. Allikmets, A. Sarapuu and K. Muller attended the training course
„Interviewing” on 6 November.
A. Sarapuu and M. Allikmets attended the training course for psychiatric nursing and
care staff on 4–5 November.
N. Parrest and K. Muller attended the annual conference of the Institute of Human
Rights on 10 December.
A. Sarapuu attended the training course „Work with patients: attitude and
communication” on 22 December.
In addition, the Chancellor of Justice considers international cooperation with other preventive
bodies and relevant international organisations to be very important. The Chancellor has been
an active member of the Council of Europe Network of National Preventive Mechanisms
(NPM) against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment, and
has replied to several queries concerning the work of the NPM. During the reporting year,
advisers to the Chancellor attended the following international events:
- R. Sults attended the workshop and the conference organised by the Association for the
Prevention of Torture (APT) in Vienna on 9–11 April.
- I. Teder, N. Parrest, A. Aru, K. Muller, J. Konsa, E. Lillemaa, M. Sarv and R. Sults
attended the OPCAT related cooperation meeting of the Baltic and Nordic ombudsmen
in Vilnius on 12–13 June.
- M. Allikmets attended the seminar ″Strengthening the effective implementation and
follow-up of recommendations by torture monitoring bodies in the European Union″ at
Bristol University on 10–11 November.
- M. Allikmets attended the forum ″The First South-East European OPCAT Forum″ on
27 November and the conference ″Preventing Torture and Other Forms of Ill-treatment
and Fighting Impunity″ on 28 November in Belgrade.
In 2014, on several occasions the Chancellor of Justice analysed the constitutionality of
legislation related either directly or indirectly to the prevention of ill-treatment; for example,
the restriction of movement of persons held in custody, full search of prisoners in prison, right
of self-defence of police officers, and the use of direct coercion.
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