Foreword The following report has been prepared in my capacity as a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) under the Crimes of Torture Act 1989 (COTA). The COTA gives effect to the United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT), ratified by Aotearoa New Zealand in 2007. My function under the COTA is to examine, and make any recommendations that I consider appropriate to improve, the treatment and conditions of detained persons in places of detention, including approved premises under the Immigration Act 2009. This report examines the treatment and conditions of people detained in the Māngere Refugee Resettlement Centre (the Centre).