the woman was questioned by officers of the State Office of Criminal Investigation. In light of this visit, the competent Commission recommended that a good practice guideline for dealing with suspected victims of human trafficking be developed for police officers and training on the subject of “human trafficking” be intensified, thus building on recommendations made by the previous Human Rights Advisory Council, which had dealt with this subject in great detail. In late June 2012, the former Human Rights Advisory Council published a report on the subject of identifying and protecting victims of human trafficking. It submitted recommendations to the Federal Ministry of the Interior on how to expand support and protective structures Austria-wide, a good practice guideline for police officers and guidelines on how to identify these victims. According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, some measures have already been or will be implemented. One can say that the Commissions have already reached some conclusions that are consistent with observations made by the former Human Rights Advisory Council. Therefore, some of the AOB’s ex-officio investigative proceedings are dealing with problems that this Human Continued engagement with issues handled by former Human Rights Advisory Council Rights Advisory Council was not able to resolve. In any case, the AOB would like to continue to engage with these issues to further the protection and promotion of human rights. Support facilities for asylum seekers The failed visit by a Commission to a support facility for asylum seekers led Place of detention? to a dispute about the scope of the mandate of the NPM. Federal support offices have been set up at the reception centres East in Traiskirchen (Lower Austria) and West in Thalham (Upper Austria), which are part of the Federal Asylum Office. Asylum seekers receive care and support there. In the opinion of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the federal support facility East cannot be classified as a place of detention. According to the Ministry, it must differentiated in which building on the site the asylum seekers are located and what stage of the asylum proceedings they are in. This was the reason why the Federal Ministry of the Interior ordered that the AOB Commission be denied access to this facility. The AOB will have to examine the Federal Ministry of the Interior’s interpretation of law from the perspective of whether asylum seekers in the federal support facility East are subject to legally inadmissible acts of detention. 51