new buildings that will house the Police Department of Morfou and Famagusta, while the Authority has also contributed with its suggestions in the content of the Handbook prepared and adopted by the Police with regard to the minimum standards that Detention Centres should meet. 2. Athalassa Psychiatric Hospital: After years of delays and bureaucratic inefficiencies, the process of deinstitutionalisation of 8 individuals hospitalised in Ward 14 of the Psychiatric Hospital has been completed. Today, these individuals live in independent residences of the Ayios Christoforos Home, where living conditions are clearly improved. The Mechanism will continue to monitor both the conditions in the Psychiatric Hospital and the conditions in the independent residences, in order to safeguard the rights of people living there and provide every possible assistance to achieve their successful deinstitutionalisation in the sense of them living independently and enjoying their rights, and will make further recommendations in this direction. 3. Care Homes for the Elderly and the Disabled: In the context of recommendations previously submitted on the legal framework for the operation of Care Homes, the competent Ministry has prepared and promoted a relevant Bill, which is being closely monitored by the Mechanism and constitutes the subject of a study to make further observations towards the holistic implementation of what has been suggested. In the meantime, in the course of 2016, the Mechanism carried out two visits to places/institutions that accommodate people with disabilities (mainly mental) to further monitor the conditions of detention in the said places, and will undertake further actions to promote respect for the rights of people with disabilities. The aforementioned actions and visits are being 25