22.  Initially, NPM teams were made up of people with legal training, but with no expert knowledge in the fields of medicine, psychiatry or psychology. In this regard it should be recalled that under article 13.3 of the OPCAT team members “may be accompanied if needed by experts of demonstrated professional experience and knowledge in the field covered by the present Protocol …”. Article 7.2 of the European Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment contains similar provisions. Initially the NPM team 23. To fulfil all the functions that international organisations expect of preventive mechanisms the Ombudsman of Spain, as announced in paragraph 22 of the Annual Report 2010, has entered into cooperation agreements with experts of proven experience and training to enlist their assistance and cooperation as independent experts accompanying NPM team members on recent visits. This helps to ensure a full, multi-disciplinary assessment of the centres and places of deprivation of liberty visited. To ensure a full, multi- 24.  These experts trained in other areas first joined the Spanish NPM inspection visit teams in October 2011. Between that time and the end of the year nine multidisciplinary inspection visits were made. The establishments visited were those listed below. Some of them had been visited previously but were deemed to have special characteristics that made it advisable to revisit them accompanied by the said experts. They joined in October, •   2 National Police Force establishments in Madrid: the Central Registry of Detainees and the Provincial Information Brigade. They assessed centres •   3 centres for young offenders in Castellón, Albacete and Almería. •   1 psychiatric prison hospital in Alicante. members on inspection visits comprised persons with legal training only disciplinary assessment, cooperation agreements have been entered into with independent experts and nine visits were made between then and the end of the year already visited that were deemed to have characteristics that made it advisable to revisit them •   1 prison in Castellón. •   1 women’s prison in Seville. •   1 incarcerated mothers unit in Seville. 25.  The co-operation of these experts in forensic and legal medicine, psychiatry and psychology has enriched the reports of the NPM by providing analyses of conditions of deprivation of liberty and potential incorrect practices or risks of mistreatment based on their respective areas of professional expertise and experience. Some disciplines, such as psychiatry and psychology, provide specialist approaches to the conducting of individual interviews with persons deprived of their liberty and to assessing the results of those interviews, and especially important point in the case of mentally ill persons held in psychiatric hospitals, prisons, therapy centres for young offenders, etc. Other disciplines, such as forensic and legal medicine enable an exhaustive examination to be made of the medical records of persons deprived of their liberty, and of any injury reports contained therein. The help of specialists 26. To integrate the independent experts into the inspection visits, they are provided beforehand with all the documentation prepared on the establishments to Independent experts THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN  in forensic and legal medicine, psychiatry and psychology provided specialist approaches to NPM reports are provided with   39