npm annual report 2016 / activities
2.2
Information activities
A brochure on the NPM was published in 2016. It is available in Finnish, Swedish,
English, Estonian and Russian, and it will be translated into other languages, if necessary.
Full reports on some of the visits conducted by the NPM have been made available on the public website of the Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman. The aim is
to draw up summaries of all visits, presenting the place visited, the aim of the visit as
well as the main observations and recommendations. Moreover, the summaries will
be updated with information on the measures taken by the facilities in response to
the recommendations.
2.3
Cooperation with other operators
In the field of police administration, meetings have been held with representatives from the National Police Board regarding the reform of the act on the
treatment of persons in police custody (laki poliisin säilyttämien henkilöiden kohtelusta
841/2006), plans to renovate police prisons and the national operational guidance of
police prisons. Reports on visits to police prisons have been submitted to the National Police Board for information. Police prisons were also discussed in connection with
a visit to the National Police Board.
The police’s internal oversight of legality at police departments is conducted by
separate legal units. It has been emphasised that these units should also inspect the
operations of police prisons in their respective territories. The National Police Board
submits to the Parliamentary Ombudsman each year a report on the oversight of legality within its area of responsibility. The report has also been submitted for the year
2016. Among other things, the report indicates that the visits conducted as part of the
National Police Board’s oversight of legality focused, in particular, on the legal protection of persons deprived of their liberty and more specifically on the provision of information on their rights, notifications of the deprivation of liberty and postponing
such notifications, and the legal protection of young persons deprived of their liberty.
The Finnish Border Guard also submits an annual report to the Parliamentary
Ombudsman on its internal oversight of legality. The report is drawn up by the Headquarters of the Finnish Border Guard.
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