The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) is an independent body which operates without government influence. It has unlimited access to all places of detention without restriction in order to assess how persons deprived of their liberty are treated, thereby ensuring greater compliance with human rights standards accross Europe. These places include prisons, juvenile detention centres, police stations, holding centres for immigration detainees, psychiatric hospitals, social care homes, etc.