Annual Report 2010 by the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture may be accessed, filed and stored. In particular, stricter regulations in this regard need to be drawn up in regard to incommunicado detention, and suitable permanent equipment needs to be installed throughout holding areas. Recordings may be stored at the disposal of those authorities entitled to request them for a period long enough to guarantee the possibility of comprehensive external supervision of the holding process. Evacuation plans in case of 103. In regard to firefighting measures in holding areas, it was urgently fire need to be established recommended that evacuation plans be drawn up and that adequate firefighting urgently equipment be installed to remedy shortcomings detected at the command headquarters of A Coruña, Alicante, Ceuta, Gijon (Asturias), Lleida, Malaga, Murcia, Santander (Cantabria), Toledo, Tres Cantos (Madrid) and Valladolid, and at the barracks in Alsasua and Tafalla (Navarre), Aviles (Asturias), Cartagena, El Astillero and Torrelavega (Cantabria), Guzmán el Bueno in Madrid, Ibiza, Inca and Sant Antoni de Portmany (Balearic Islands), Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz) and Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña). It must also be stressed that the access corridor to the holding cells at the command headquarters in Toledo is too narrow for all three doors to stand open at the same time in case of emergency. Detainees usually establish 104. Detainees usually establish communication with the officers guarding them communication with by means of buzzers or intercoms. Exceptions to this rule were found among the officers guarding them by intercom establishments visited: no such system was available at the barracks in Aviles (Asturias), and the system in the Guzmán el Bueno barracks in Madrid was in need of repair. At most of the establishments visited it was found that guards were not stationed permanently in the holding area while the cells were occupied. At those establishments where the intercom and CCTV surveillance systems were considered to be insufficient, it was requested that an officer be stationed in the area adjoining the holding cells while they were occupied (the command headquarters of A Coruña, Balearic Islands (Palma de Mallorca), Lleida, Madrid (Tres Cantos), Malaga, Seville and Tarragona and the barracks in the towns of Aviles (Asturias), Cartagena (Murcia), Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña) and the airports of El Prat de Llobregat (Barcelona) and Malaga. However, it was observed that there was not always a suitable space available in the holding area for a guard to be stationed there. A surveillance room or a checkpoint should therefore be set up accordingly. Healthcare procedures and 105. The procedures for providing detainees with health care, and the the associated shortcomings shortcomings detected in this regards on the inspection visits made, do not differ are similar to those listed for CNP-run establishments. Medication is prescribed and substantially from those listed for CNP-run establishments in paragraph 55. The command headquarters for Madrid (Tres Cantos) and the barracks at Sant Antoni dispensed by the medical de Portmany (Balearic Islands) were found not to be supplied with prophylactic service and handed over by measures for use with detainees who showed signs of infectious or contagious guards diseases. Medication is prescribed and dispensed by the relevant medical services and handed over to detainees by the officers guarding them. At the command 70 THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN

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