treatment or punishment in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. 9 out of the 17 recommendations have been endorsed in the resolution of the Parliament of Georgia.193 One proposal issued to the Parliament of Georgia has not been implemented. 2 out of 16 recommendations made to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia have been implemented, 6 recommendations have been partially implemented, 8 have not been implemented. The purpose of the present chapter is to review in detail the recommendations offered in the report of the National Preventive Mechanism and their implementation. Information on the above issues is additionally presented in the relevant thematic chapters. Proposal to the Parliament of Georgia In 2019, the National Preventive Mechanism drew up a proposal to the Parliament of Georgia, in which the Public Defender requested amendments to the Administrative Offences Code to determine the obligation of the judge to apply to the relevant investigative body in case he/she suspects that a person under administrative detention was subjected to torture, degrading or inhuman treatment or punishment, or if the person under administrative detention himself/herself tells the court about the above. This recommendation has not been implemented. It should be noted that despite increasing the role of a judge at the stage of criminal proceedings, the authority of the latter to address the investigative body does not apply to alleged violence committed by law enforcement officers against persons arrested for administrative offences. The cases studied by the National Preventive Mechanism show that the cases of alleged ill-treatment of persons arrested for administrative offences are frequent,194 which makes it important to extend the above power of the judge to similar cases. Recommendations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia One recommendation to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia concerned access to a lawyer and provision of information to the family. In particular, the Public Defender called on the Ministry of Internal Affairs to examine whether the detainees' right to contact his/her family members/relatives/lawyers and to inform them about his/her detention was protected and to develop a mechanism that would make it possible to monitor the realization of this right, as well as to provide information on the results of the examination to the Public Defender’s Office. The recommendation has been partially implemented. The recommendation has been endorsed by the Parliament of Georgia 193 Resolution of the Parliament of Georgia on the Report of the Public Defender of Georgia on the Situation of Human Rights and Freedoms in Georgia in 2018, available at: < https://www.matsne.gov.ge/ka/document/view/4659391?publication=0 > [last accessed: 15.01.20]. 194 According to the data processed by the Special Preventive Group by using a statistical programme (SPSS), the number of persons under administrative detention, who had complaints, increased by 5.2% in 2019 compared to 2018. As for criminal cases, the percentage of those who had complaints against the police decreased by 5.2% compared to 2018. In addition, in 2019, higher percentage of persons under administrative detention indicated that they were harmed during or after arrest (42.8%), compared to those detained on criminal charges (28.3%). 72