1.5 INTERNATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES OF THE NPM In addition to visiting places of deprivation of liberty, the NPM also conducts numerous other tasks. These include the preparation of proposals and comments to applicable or proposed acts (in addition to the already mentioned cooperation in the working group of the Ministry of Health to prepare amendments to the Mental Health Act (ZDZdr), and comments and proposals to the draft Liability of Minors for Criminal Offences Act and the Act on the Intervention for Children and Teenagers with Emotional and Conduct Disorders and Problems in Education, we also participated in the preparation of the Rules amending the Rules on the Implementation of Prison Sentences and other regulations in 2019). We also prepared and carried out presentations for foreign delegations or local visitors (e.g. we hosted representatives of foreign delegations from Montenegro, Palestine and Croatia in 2019), and drafted replies to questions from various networks or other NPMs and bodies. We attended various meetings, seminars and sessions (in Slovenia and abroad) at which we showcased our work (some of these activities are included in the review of the NPM’s other activities in 2019, which is attached to this report). 1.4 REALISATION OF NPM RECOMMENDATIONS In May and December 2019, we again participated in the training programme for newly recruited prison officers at which Deputy Ombudsman, Ivan Šelih, presented the work of the Ombudsman to prison officers in Gotenica, and the Ombudsman’s adviser, Robert Gačnik, presented the work of the NPM. Within the scope of preparing to implement guidelines and obligatory instructions for preparing the police work plan and planning of supervision of the Police, we met with the representatives of the Police and Security Directorate at the Ministry of the Interior in the relevant year (as was done in the past). The NPM also organises education and training courses. In cooperation with the Omega Research Foundation and the University of Exeter, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) organised a course on supervision regarding the use of weapons and other coercive measures (such as electrical discharge weapons) and the prevention of torture for the Ombudsman’s employees and participating representatives of NGOs on 21 November 2019. During the course, the participants learn in greater detail about the international norms and standards, 18 such as the Nelson Mandela Rules on the use of weapons and other coercive measures by police officers and other security staff. 18 The Ombudsman provided and published a translation of these rules into Slovenian in the 2015 NPM report, p.195. 18 THE REPORT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA ON IMPLEMENTING THE TASKS OF THE NPM