The National Preventive Mechanism at the Human Rights Ombudsman (NPM) performs regular visits of to the Forensic Psychiatry Unit. The NPM frequently notes difficulties in enforcing the security measure of compulsory psychiatric treatment in a health care institution and at liberty. One of the endeavours of the NPM is to achieve the necessary upgrade of the forensic psychiatry in Slovenia, which was identified by the project assignment of the Ministry of Justice called ‘Organisation of forensic psychiatry in Slovenia’ prepared in December 2015. There, the goal was set to establish a ‘comprehensive system of specialised care that will enable multidisciplinary, tailored and person-centred professional treatment, with the aim of integration into the most independent and autonomous community life possible'.109 The project also concluded that there is a need to upgrade forensic psychiatry in Slovenia: • define norms and standards for the treatment of forensic patients in a health care institution (especially for minors), • define norms and standards for the treatment of forensic patients at liberty (especially for minors), • define programmes for the psychosocial and occupational rehabilitation of forensic patients, • define norms and standards for institutional or community-based treatment of former forensic patients, • define protocols for cooperation between different bodies and institutions in planning the follow-up of forensic patients after the expiry of the decision, • prepare an analysis of the situation with an international comparison and elaborate short-term (up to five years), medium-term (up to ten years) and longterm strategies for the Republic of Slovenia, • examine and, if necessary, amend the legislation for the implementation of the strategy, • elaborate an evaluation tool to monitor the development of the field (system) of forensic and post-forensic psychiatry (psychiatric psychiatry in the forensic and post-forensic field). 109 Varuh človekovih pravic (2020), Letno poročilo Varuha človekovih pravic Republike Slovenije za leto 2019, Ljubljana, Varuh človekovih pravic, p. 163. 38