visit which covered Police units. Its objective was to assess the implementation of recommendations concerning the treatment of detainees in police custody. This Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights constitutes a diagnosis and up to a certain extent a response to problems associated with the implementation of CPT standards and execution of recommendations comprised in the report from the visit to Poland in 2017. The CPT report presents shortcomings concerning effective implementation of multiple recommendations, particularly in terms of anti-torture guarantees that every person has the right to from the moment of detention. International organizations examine the fulfillment of treaty obligations concerning the prohibition of torture by states which are signatories of the UN Convention against torture. Problems with the implementation of those obligations formulated by the CAT were the subject of a dialogue between the representatives of the CHR and non-governmental organizations. On the basis of the alternative report on the implementation of the provisions of the convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment the representatives of the CHR presented some areas of risk concerning the implementation of the convention. The alternative report concerns, among other things, the missing definition of the offense consisting in torture, the situation of persons deprived of their liberty as well as limitations related to the provision of legal aid, violence against women and domestic violence, refugees and asylum-seekers, temporary detention as well as functioning of persons detained in prisons, including sensitive groups, counteracting discrimination, abortion-related problems, torture-forced evidence, amendments in law associated with the reform of the judicial system and the operation of the NMPT. The annual Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Poland is a sum of experiences resulting, primarily, from visits to numerous places of detention with due consideration given to international standards, which makes this Report a comprehensive document in terms of the presentation of the problem of prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Hanna Machińska, Ph.D. Deputy Commissioner for Human Rights Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Poland in 2019 7