opcat inspections in 2019
16
Inspection items
Number of inspections Dialogues
Prisons
4
Remand prisons
9
The Prison and probation Service
1
The Prison and Probation Service (National
Transportation Unit)
1
Police custody facilities
7
Special residential homes for young people
2
Special residential homes for substance
abusers
2
The National Board of Institutional Care
1
Psychiatric units
3
The Swedish Migration Agency’s detention
centres
1
The Health and Social Care Inspectorate
Total
7
29
9
For a full account of the inspections carried out and dialogue meetings held, see Annex B.
In 2019, the Parliamentary Ombudsmen’s supervisory divisions carried out
five additional inspections of places where people may be held deprived of
their liberty (four prisons, one detention centre and two facilities for compulsory psychiatric care). Employees from the OPCAT Unit took part in three of
these inspections.2
2 Hall, Salberga, Saltvik and Ystad prisons, Salberga remand prison, child and youth psychiatric unit (BUP) in Malmö and Forensic
Psychiatric Care Stockholm, Section Nord.
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