Section two The NPM in 2019–20
inadequate accountability procedures in
place at the three prisons visited.203
In November, the Association for the
Prevention of Torture (APT) organised a
meeting between NPMs in Europe to discuss
safeguards in police custody. The event also
celebrated 50 years of the CPT.
As in previous years, the NPM and its
members collaborated actively with a range
of international actors, including monitoring
bodies and inspectorates from other
countries, academics and non-governmental
organisations. The NPM and its members
provided input to other NPMs, expert forums
and new detention monitoring initiatives
over the year, as follows:
• The CCE organised a trip for a delegation
of English officials to visit secure
accommodation for children in Norway.
The trip allowed officials to see first-hand
examples of best practice in regard to the
detention of children.
• CQC took part in a Doughty Street
Chambers event on psychosocial disability
rights with the Japan Federation of Bar
Associations. CQC discussed its NPM
role, the UN Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities and the transition
to community-based mental health
services. CQC also took part in a meeting
with the UN Special Rapporteur on the
Right to Health, Dainius Pūras, organised
by the University of Essex.
• In April 2019, CJINI hosted a Churchill
Fellow from Australia’s Northern Territory
who visited to learn more about
detention monitoring bodies. CJINI also
hosted a senior inspector from the
Office of the Ombudsman New Zealand
(one of the New Zealand NPM bodies)
for a week-long study visit in July 2019.
This was an opportunity for the inspector
to learn more about the UK NPM, the
NPM bodies in Northern Ireland and CJINI’s
inspection methodologies. The inspector
shadowed an IMBNI meeting in Hydebank
Wood Secure College and accompanied
CJINI on fieldwork for the inspection
of police custody and on a visit to the
Juvenile Justice Centre to meet young
people who had recent experience of
police custody.
• SHRC submitted a shadow report to the
UN Committee Against Torture in March
2019, which was considered as part of
the periodic review of the UK in May
2019. Representatives of the Commission
attended the review to give evidence
and supported the NPM oral session.
SHRC also submitted a shadow report
to International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights in January 2020.204
203 UK NPM, April 2020, Statement from the UK NPM in response to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) Report to the United Kingdom on their 2019 visit to England,
https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/npm-prod-storage-19n0nag2nk8xk/uploads/2020/04/NPM-Short-response-noteCPT-report-England-2019.pdf [accessed 27/08/2020]
204 United Nations Treat Body Database, Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (The Committee): NHRI
Report to Inform List of Issues Prior to Reporting on the United Kingdom’s 8th periodic report under the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbo
lno=INT%2fCCPR%2fIFR%2fGBR%2f40930&Lang=en [accessed 10/11/2020]
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