Places of short-Term Deprivation of Liberty was requested that the fact of and reason for any searches requiring detainees to strip naked be recorded in the Detainee Registration and Custody Log, and that the courts be duly informed of this measure in all cases, whatever the results. Following the visit to the barracks in Tafalla (Navarre) it was stressed that all searches of female detainees, including superficial searches, must be performed by female officers of the law, and that such officers must be brought in from other forces if necessary. 115. The situation regarding the possibility of detainees requesting habeas Requests for habeas corpus is similar to that indicated for the CNP in paragraph 70. It must be said corpus are handled that at most of the establishments visited the telephone call to request legal counsel similarly to the CNP is made only after all police procedures have been completed and a statement from the detainee is to be taken. 116. All the establishments visited were provided with the Detainee Registration The establishments visited and Custody Log required as per SES Instruction 12/2009. In some cases it was all had Detainee found that this log was not being completed correctly: sections were being left blank and circumstances specifically listed as requiring registration, such as Registration and Custody Logs meals and searches, were not being entered. Indications in this regard were made following the inspection visits to the command headquarters in Lleida and the barracks of Sant Antoni de Portmany (Balearic Islands) and Torrelavega (Cantabria). 117. The protocols for the holding of juveniles are those laid down in SES The holding of juveniles is Instruction 11/2007, already mentioned in paragraph 72 in regard to the CNP. governed by the same The specialist Civil Guard teams working in this area are known as EMUMEs (Women and Juveniles Units). protocols as apply to the CNP III. Regional Police Force Establishments 118. Article 149.1.29 of the Spanish Constitution establishes that the state has In 2010 three of the four exclusive competence over “[p]ublic safety, without prejudice to the possibility of regional police forces were creation of police forces by the Autonomous Communities, in the manner to be provided for in their respective Statutes of Autonomy and within the framework to be laid down by a Public General Act”. Eleven statutes of autonomy (Andalusia, visited: the Ertzaintza (Basque Country), the Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalonia) and the Aragon, the Canary Islands, Castilla y Leon, Catalonia, the Community of Regional Police Force of Valencia, Extremadura, Galicia, Balearic Islands, Navarre and the Basque Navarre Country) have provided for this possibility. The public general act referred to here by the Constitution is PGA 2/1986 of March 13 on Security Forces. Chapters III and IV of this Act (Arts. 37-50) set out the basic framework for action of these forces. Pursuant to these provisions, four regional police forces have been set up: the Ertzaintza in the Basque Country, the Mossos d’Esquadra in Catalonia, the THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN 73

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