Foreword
2015 was the second year in which the Parliamentary Ombudsman served
as a national preventive mechanism pursuant to the Optional Protocol to
the Convention against Torture (OPCAT). During the year, we have increased
our level of activity – we have both increased the number of visits to places
where people are deprived of their liberty and expanded our visit field to
include the police immigration detention centre at Trandum and mental
health care institutions, in addition to police custody facilities and prisons.
In this work, we have identified several challenges that are found across
the sectors, whether this be prisons, police custody facilities, mental
health care institutions or the police immigration detention centre. We
have also found that the places of detention visited seem to follow up the
Parliamentary Ombudsman’s recommendations in a thorough manner.