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When it comes to the protection of persons deprived of liberty that belong to particularly
vulnerable groups, the coordinator guides the activities of the Preventive Mechanism in
agreement with the Protector of Citizens’ Deputies for Gender Equality, Child Rights, National
Minority Rights and Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
On the basis of consultation with the Preventive Mechanism members, the coordinator gives
special assignments for specific areas to particular members of the Preventive Mechanism.
The Protector of Citizens’Expert Service is in charge of the Preventive Mechanism organizational
and administrative tasks.
By a special decree the Protector of Citizens appoints the Preventive Mechanism administrative
secretary from among the Protector of Citizens’ Expert Service staff (hereinafter: administrative
secretary).
By the coordinator’s order, the administrative secretary guides and performs organizational
and administrative tasks of the Preventive Mechanism and is responsible for their realization.
2.2.
DRAFTING OF QUESTIONNAIRES
Questionnaires should contain systematized and standardized questions related to general
and special data on institution and persons deprived of liberty.
Answers to asked questions should offer relevant picture of the situation in the institution and
be suitable for comparison and analysis.
The questionnaires should be of tabular type. Questions need to be precise, clear and recognizable.
Terminology used should be standardized and harmonized. The style of asked questions and
offered answers should be unique. The questions should mainly be based on provisions of
concrete regulations and valid standards so that their answers immediately point out the possible
shortcomings or irregularities in work. Whenever it is objectively possible, the answers should be
set as alternatives, with entering of numeric data, but leaving blank space in certain questions for
recording of personal opinion. It is desirable that after the group of questions referring to specific
area, provisions of regulations and standards on the basis of which they are asked are stated.
Drafting of questionnaire will be done in two phases. The first phase includes drafting of initial
questionnaires used for creation of electronic database about institutions, drafting of questionnaires
that precede visit to an institution, as well as drafting of questionnaires that are used in the course
of visit to prisons. In the second phase the questionnaires that will be used during visits to other
places of detention of persons deprived of liberty will be developed.
2.2.1.
INITIAL QUESTIONNAIRES
These questionnaires will be forwarded to all places of detention of persons deprived of liberty
for their answer.
The goal of these questionnaires is to create a special database of places of detention of
persons deprived of liberty (“identity card of institutions“) within the electronic database of the
Preventive Mechanism (ЕDPM).
These questionnaires contain general, standardized questions about the type of institution, its
name, address, contact, capacity, current number of persons deprived of liberty, total number
of staff, health care personnel, and other relevant data.
These questionnaires are supposed to be forwarded for feedback to the management of institution.
Different initial questionnaires will be drafted depending on the type of institution: for prisons,
remand units, police stations, psychiatric and other closed health care institutions, social care
institutions, asylums for foreigners etc.
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