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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