order to integrate them into society. Replacing the sentences of the convicts humanizes punishment and spreads the spirit of love, tolerance, responsibility, and community partnership among all members of the family; such goals are in agreement with human rights. 25. In its statement, the NIHR called on all those benefiting from these alternative penalties - whether the convicts themselves or their relatives who take care of them - to positively interact and cooperate with the competent authorities to achieve the core purpose of the alternative penalty. At the same time, it called on the various private and civil sectors, bodies, and civil society institutions to accept those convicts benefiting from alternative sanctions and measures to effectively contribute to its success and expansion, especially that these alternative sanctions and measures are a creative idea that compromises between the purpose of the penalty and human rights values, and ensures that the essence of culture of reform and rehabilitation prevails, which brings confident and positive progress to the human rights record of the Kingdom of Bahrain. 26.  The NIHR hopes that all the competent authorities having jurisdiction to activate Law No. (18) of 2017 on Alternative Penalties and Measures, endeavor to spread awareness among governmental, semi-governmental and private bodies receiving those sentenced with alternative penalties, in particular, and the entire public, in general, on the need to integrate them into places of rehabilitation and never consider them as having criminal records. Fifth: Announced and unannounced field visits to correctional and rehabilitation centers and care homes 27. With regard to field visits, as one of the means of monitoring granted to the NIHR, paragraph (g) of Article (12) of the Law stipulates that it is mandated to, “carry out announced and unannounced field visits, to monitor the human rights situation in correctional institutions, places of detention, labor call gatherings, and health and education centers, or any other public place suspected of being a site of human rights violations.” A. Visiting a number of centers affiliated to the Ministry of the Interior 28. Pursuant to the terms of reference contained in its Establishment Law, the NIHR has conducted seventeen (17) field visits to the places affiliated with the Ministry of Interior, among which seven (7) visits to the Correction and Rehabilitation Center for inmates (males), and four (4) visits to the Correction, Rehabilitation, and Pre-trial Detention Center for female inmates, and two (2) visits to the Dry Dock Pre-trial Detention Center, and one (1) visit to each of the Migrant Shelter and Deportation Center, the Capital Governorate Police Station Directorate, the Northern Governorate Police Directorate, and the General Traffic Department’s Detention Center. 29. The NIHR examined the general conditions of those centers, met with some of the convicts and detainees - as the case may be - and heard their requests, and discussed the situation with the officials of the centers on duty. The NIHR followed up on all the issues with the competent authority at the Ministry of Interior. 96