Annual Report 2010 by the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture There are no centralised cell There were no centralised cell opening systems for emergencies or provisions for opening systems for urgent evacuation of detainees, except at the cells in the courthouse building in emergency evacuation Pamplona (Navarre). This was also the only such building visited that had audio systems for detainees to communicate with custodial officers. Relevant health 238. The protocol for healthcare applied is that of whichever force is in charge information must be of custody at each establishment. Custodial officers complained repeatedly that passed on to officers in charge of transportation and custody. Proper co­ they had no knowledge of any infectious and contagious diseases that detainees might be carrying: proper co-ordination is needed between the different police ordination between police forces and prisons so that any relevant health information is passed on to officers forces and prisons is in charge of transportation and custody, along the lines indicated in Instruction therefore required 7, Subsection (h) of SES Instruction 8/2009, amending Instruction 5/2009 on the transportation and custody of prison inmates. Pregnant women are deal with using the same protocols as other detainees, and no information on the existence of written rules for these cases was found. Inmates are not provided 239. Detainees and prisoners have breakfast at the facilities where they spend with meals, nor is there any the night and, since they are usually held in courthouse cells only in the provision for this. The lack of a continuous, unlimited drinking water supply at the courthouses in Las Palmas de Gran mornings, are not provided with meals. There is no provision for cases in which the taking of statements by the judge may be delayed. This situation should be remedied on a general level. At the cells in the courthouse at Plaza de Castilla in Madrid any food that needs to be served to the occupants is pre­ Canaria and Maspalomas packaged and pre-prepared by an external contractor, but final preparation is (Las Palmas) must be handled by three grade three inmates, who do this as remunerated prison remedied as a priority work. At the cells in the courthouse in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Maspalomas (Las Palmas), detainees do not have continuous unlimited access to water: bottled water needs to be used, and none is supplied by the regional autonomous authorities responsible for the establishment. Remedying this shortcoming is a priority. In the courthouse at Plaza 240. Cells are not usually supplied with mattresses or blankets, as detainees do de Castilla in Madrid it was not spend the night there, though at the cells in the courthouse buildings in requested that blankets and mattresses be Navarre disposable blankets are available if necessary. In exceptional cases hygienised after each use when detainees have to spend the night in the cells in the courthouse at Plaza de and that old, broken Castilla in Madrid, they sleep in a cell with bunk beds, the mattresses and furniture be replaced blankets for which were found to be in a poor state of hygiene and conservation. It was requested that old, broken furniture be replaced and that the blankets Custodial staff need to be called when occupants and mattresses, which are currently changed every two weeks, be cleaned after each use. wish to use the toilet. Hygiene and upkeep were 241. Except in the courthouse at Plaza de Castilla in Madrid the toilets are satisfactory in most cases outside the cells, so custodial staff must be called when detainees wish to use 106 THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN