14 THE GREEK OMBUDSMAN II. Annual Special Report of 2017 1. – INSPECTIONS AND INSTITUTIONAL INTERVENTIONS ⚫ BRIEF REVIEW OF INSPECTIONS During 2017, in the context of the programmed monthly visits of the Authority’s teams to all Regions of the country –but also outside the scope of this schedule- the National Preventive Mechanism has carried out visits and on-site inspections in: • 9 Detention Facilities, namely in: Ioannina, Corfu, Kassandra, Nigrita, Diavata, Chios, Komotini, Corinth, as well as Korydallos Prison Hospital and the branch for HIV-positive prisoners, • 10 Police Headquarters cells or Police Stations cells (in Chios, Petroupoli, Ioannina, Igoumenitsa, Samos, Kos, the Immigration Management Department of Mygdonia / Liti, the Sub-directorate of Transits of Thessaloniki, the Transits Department of Ioannina) and 1 under the Hellenic Coastguard’s jurisdiction (Igoumenitsa), • 8 Pre-removal Centres (Tavros / P. Rallis St., Corinth, Moria in Lesvos, Amygdaleza / Minors Detention Centre, Paranestion, Xanthi, Orestiada, Thessaloniki / Aliens D), • 3 psychiatric facilities (Psychiatric clinic of University General Hospital of Ioannina, Psychiatric Ward of General Hospital “G. Hatzikosta” in Ioannina, Psychiatric Hospital of Thessaloniki), as well as follow-up visits to those made in the previous year at the Psychiatric Hospital of Athens (Dafni), • 3 housing units of Social Welfare Centres (the Lechaina Branch for Persons with Disabilities of the Social Welfare Centre of the Region of Western Greece, the Skaramagkas Unit of the Voula Branch for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Children with Disabilities (former Hospice for Chronic Children’s Disease of Skaramagkas) of the Social Welfare Centre of the Region of Attica, the Branch for People with Disabilities of Western Attica), while a NPM team for the first time carried out an inspection of a private elderly care unit.