Acknowledgments Many people contributed to work on this report, and I should like to thank them all. Thanks are due to New Zealand’s Human Rights Commission for inviting me to conduct this study and for setting up site visits and meetings. The study was carried out with the co-operation of New Zealand’s National Preventative Mechanisms (NPMs), who provided me with invaluable insights on New Zealand’s seclusion and restraint practices and accompanied me on site visits, generously offering their time and experience. My thanks to David Rutherford, Chief Human Rights Commissioner, Judge Andrew Becroft, the Children’s Commissioner, Judge Peter Boshier, Chief Ombudsman, Judge Sir David Carruthers, Chair of the Independent Police Conduct Authority, Dame Susan Devoy, Race Relations Commissioner, and Paul Gibson, Disability Rights Commissioner, for supporting this project and sharing their extensive knowledge and experience. Jacki Jones, Chief Inspector COTA, Office of the Ombudsman, was instrumental to this review, from helping to select which sites to visit through to accompanying me on several visits and commenting on drafts of this report. COTA Inspectors Tessa Harbutt, Emma Roebuck and Eric Fairbairn joined different site visits, as did Sarah Hayward and Brian Gardner of the Office of the Children’s Commissioner, and Warren Young from the Independent Police Conduct Authority. I am grateful to them all. Thanks are also due to Liz Kinley of the Children’s Commissioner’s office, for her thoughts and insightful comments on a draft of this report. Many thanks are due to Anneliese Boston for co-ordinating and accompanying me on visits, liaising with both the NPM bodies and the detaining agencies, and providing background materials. Also at the Human Rights Commission, my thanks to Margaret McDonald, Senior Human Rights Specialist, and to Michael White, Senior Legal Advisor, for their assistance in putting together the relevant New Zealand legislation and regulations appended to this report, and to Anna Ashton for helping to get this study off the ground. My thanks to Angela Gruar and Carolyn Swanson of Te Pou, Judi Clements, Chair of the Mental Health 13