Acronyms & Abbreviations Used
ABP
Basic Policing Area
AENA
Spanish Airport & Air Traffic Authority
AP
Provincial Court of Appeal [Audiencia Provincial]
APT
Association for the Prevention of Torture
BPP
Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under any form of Detention or
Imprisonment (adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in Resolution 43/173
of December 9, 1988)
CAT
UN Committee Against Torture
CCTV
Closed Circuit Television
CETI
Temporary Holding Facilities for Immigrants
CGC
Civil Guard Barracks
CIE
Centres for Foreign Nationals
CIS
Halfway House
CM
Centre for Young Offenders
CNP
National Police Force
Convention
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment (adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in Resolution 39/46 of
December 10, 1984)
CP
Prison
CPT
European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (Council of Europe)
DGPGC
Directorate General for the Police and Civil Guard (Ministry of the Interior)
DUE
Holder of a (short-course) University Degree in Nursing
EDM
Military Detention Centre
EMUME
Women and Juveniles Units (Civil Guard)
ETZ
Ertzaintza (Basque Autonomous Police)
FCSE
State Security Forces
FIES
Files on Inmates subject to Special Monitoring
GC
Civil Guard
GR
General Report of the CPT
GRUME
Juveniles Unit (National Police Force)
HIV
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
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