the opcat activities 10 As NPM, the Parliamentary Ombudsmen are tasked with: • regularly inspecting places where individuals may be held deprived of their liberty; • making recommendations to the relevant authorities with the aim of improving the competent agencies with a view to improving the treatment of and conditions for individuals deprived of their liberty and preventing torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; • submitting proposals and observations on existing or proposed legislation relating to the treatment of and conditions for individuals deprived of their liberty; • engaging in dialogues with competent agencies, as well as; • reporting on the OPCAT activities. Likewise, all the individual Parliamentary Ombudsmen must fulfil the NPM assignment within their respective areas of supervision. The Parliamentary Ombudsmen have assessed that the places to be inspected in its role as NPM are primarily prisons, remand prisons, police custody facilities, psychiatric and forensic psychiatric care facilities, the Swedish Migration Agency’s detention centres and the National Board of Institutional Care’s special residential homes for substance abusers and special residential homes for young people. Parliamentary Ombudsman Katarina Påhlsson Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman Elisabeth Rynning Parliamentary Ombudsman Thomas Norling Parliamentary Ombudsman Per Lennerbrant The OPCAT Unit 1 Head of Unit 1 Dep. Head of Unit 4 Legal Advisors 2 Experts The Parliamentary Ombudsmen have set up a special OPCAT unit tasked with assisting the individual Parliamentary Ombudsmen in their roles as NPM. The main work consists of planning and carrying out inspections of places where people may be held deprived of their liberty. Since the end of 2019, the OPCAT Unit consists of a head of unit, a deputy head of unit, four legal advisors and two experts (a medical expert and an expert in psychology). 1.5 International oversight bodies The SPT has 25 independent members who are experts in areas of relevance to the prevention of torture. The members are appointed by the states party