Annual Report 2010 by the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture Atxilo: computerised 140. The detainee custody log is computerised, and uses individual files known detainee custody log, as Atxilo. These files contain detailed information on and the precise times of all comprising highly detailed individual files. The truthfulness and accuracy events during the period of detention. It was observed on the inspection visits that the system was located outside the holding areas and was handled by staff of records is checked via other than those in direct contact with detainees. Custodial officers report any external audits events that require registration to their control centre by means of audio alerts. The accuracy and truthfulness of the entries recorded are checked regularly by means of external audits in which the details logged are compared with surveillance camera recordings. No information on the 141. The officers in charge of the establishments visited indicated that detainees possibility of requesting were not informed either in writing or verbally of the possibility of requesting habeas corpus habeas corpus. Efforts are made to avoid 142. As a general rule every effort is made to avoid juvenile detainees being juveniles being held in cell held in cells or handcuffed unless the situation is deemed to require such measures. 17 persons detained 143. According to the data reported to this Office by the Department of the in 2010 were held Interior of the Basque Government, in 2010 the Anti-Terrorist and Information incommunicado Division of the Ertzaintza made 17 arrests in which detainees were held incommunicado. The regime applied was that indicated in the basic regulations alluded to in paragraph 38 above. This regime was applied to around 0.2% of the persons detained by the Basque autonomous police force and held in cells that year, according to the data shown in the table adjoining paragraph 120 above. A visit was arranged to the A visit was arranged to the Territorial Headquarters of the said Division in territorial headquarters in Arcaute (Alava) when it was learned that there were two detainees being held Arcaute (Alava) when it was learned that there were two detainees being held there incommunicado incommunicado there. This facility is based in a complex that houses the force’s training academy among other services. The visit included individual, private interviews with both the detainees held incommunicado, a meeting with the forensic specialists in charge of examining their physical and mental state, a detailed examination of the installations, a check on detainee treatment procedures and an inspection of recordings from various cameras installed in the holding area. In theory the facilities 144. The holding area there comprises twelve cells arranged along two parallel can hold up to corridors, one used by the Traffic Division and the other by the Anti-Terrorist 6 incommunicado detainees and Information Division. The six cells used by the latter division all have secure pre-cell areas and double doors. In theory the facilities are capable of holding 6 persons incommunicado, as the cells used by the two divisions are not used simultaneously. At the time of the visit it felt cold in the cell area, but since custodial officers are required to cover their entire bodies (including their heads, 80 THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN

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