a decision on vesting regional coordinators with the right to conduct independent visits to places of detention with public monitors who had undergone appropriate training and received the Commissioner’s assignment. During 2014, regional representatives and PR coordinators conducted 62 visits to places of detention, including 50 visits by regional coordinators and 12 by regional representatives. Places of detention of different types were subject to monitoring: Smila psychiatric hospital, Smila neuropsychiatric residence, Sosnivsky district court of Cherkasy city, Horodyshche district department of the MIA Directorate in Cherkasy region and its THF, Kozyatyn district department of the MIA Directorate in Vinnytsya region and the department’s THF, Nemyriv district department of the MIA Directorate in Vinnytsya region and the department’s THF, Zhmerynka district department of the MIA Directorate in Vinnytsya region and the department’s THF, Starokostyantyniv district department of the MIA Directorate in Khmelnytsky region and its THF, Khmilnyk district department of the MIA Directorate in Vinnytsya region and its THF, Rotmistrivka residence for elderly persons and persons with disabilities, Chyhyryn district court of Cherkasy region, in-patient unit of the territorial center of social services of Chyhyryn district, Odesa remand prison of the SPSU Directorate in Odesa region, Odesa childcare residence, THF of Odesa city directorate of the Main MIA Directorate in Odesa region, Chortkiv remand prison of the SPSU in Ternopil region, Berezhany correctional colony of the SPSU Directorate in Ternopil region, Mykolayiv remand prison, Nizhyn childcare residence in Chernihiv region, Chernihiv correctional colony #44, Lutsk remand prison, Starobilsk remand prison, specialized general education boarding school for children with hearing impairments in Lviv, as well as other facilities where persons are held against their will. The monitoring was conducted with the use of an integrated NPM methodology, and its results were forwarded to the NPM Department for analysis and further response. Examples of violations of human rights and freedoms identified by regional coordinators during monitoring visits are presented in the next chapter of this Report within the analysis of monitoring results for each ministry and agency. 39