On 18 June, at the Gotenica Training and Accommodation Centre, the Human Rights Ombudsman Matjaž Hanžek spoke to inspectors of police authority directors' offices about his work, under the heading Human Rights Ombudsman – the significance of his role and procedures for resolving complaints. He spoke about complaints as an element for correcting operations, and stressed that a vital condition for complaints was a certain level of democracy in the operating environment.

As part of a two-day seminar organised by the office of the Director General of Police for inspectors, whose job it is to look into the resolving of complaints against police officers and investigate criminal acts by police officers in performing official duties, deputy ombudsman Aleš Butala also spoke to the participants. His subject was Protection of human rights and freedoms from the aspect of carrying out police procedures and of complaints made to the ombudsman.

The lectures form part of the cooperation between the ombudsman's office and the police force in the area of education designed to raise awareness of the importance of protecting human rights in the everyday work of repressive bodies.