Report on an unannounced follow up inspection of Te Whare o Matairangi Mental Health Inpatient Unit, Wellington Hospital, under the Crimes of Torture Act 1989

This report has been prepared in my capacity as a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) under the Crimes of Torture Act 1989 (COTA). In 2007, the Ombudsmen were designated one of the NPMs under the COTA, with responsibility for examining and monitoring the treatment and conditions of detained people in the relevant places of detention. My responsibility includes hospital units in which people are detained.