A delegation of the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out a periodic visit to Ukraine from 8 to 21 December 2017. In addition to the situation of persons in police custody, prisoners, psychiatric patients and residents of social care institutions, the delegation also examined the treatment, conditions and legal safeguards of immigration detainees. In this context, it visited the Temporary Detention Places (TDP) of the State Border Guard Service in Chernivtsi and Lviv.