ANNUAL REPORT OF NPM 2019 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Reports with recommendations published during 20197 During the reporting period, NPM published reports with recommendations for the visits to the DCF, HCMD, Border Crossing Point International Airport “Adem Jashari” in Prishtina, CCS, DCM, CCWJL, CCD, DCP, DCL, ECCL, Detention Centre in Prishtina, Detention Centre in Peja and HSP. In addition, during the reporting period, the NPM published recommendation letters regarding visits to the Detention Centre in Peja, DCGJ, CCD and the visit to the police stations in Peja, Deçan, Gjakova, Fushë Kosova, Rahovec, Shtime, Vushtrri, Border Crossing Point “Vërmicë”, Lipjan and Regional Detention Centre in Prishtina. 8 Through these reports with recommendations and recommendation letters, the NPM sent 75 recommendations to the competent authorities. So far, the competent authorities implemented 17 recommendations, 5 recommendations were partially implemented, while others are pending implementation. During the reporting period, no NPM recommendation was rejected by the competent authorities. Cooperation of visited institutions with the NPM During NPM’s visits to the institutions where persons deprived of liberty are held, officers of the institutions visited generally offered to the monitoring team full cooperation and immediate access. The team immediately had access to all visited premises. The team was provided with all information necessary to carry out the task and was given the opportunity to have interviews with detained, detained on remand and convicted persons, without the presence of correctional officers, police officers, health personnel and psychiatric institutions’ personnel and social care personnel. 7 All reports with recommendations on the visits of the NPM, published during 2019 in Albanian, Serbian and English can be found at: https://www.oik-rks.org/en/national-mechanism-for-prevention-of-torture-nmpt/reports-nmpt/ . 8 All NPM’s Reports with recommendations and recommendations letters sent to competent authorities during 2019 can be found by clicking the following link: https://www.oik-rks.org/en/national-mechanism-for-prevention-of-torture-nmpt/reports-nmpt/. 8