Places of Medium-Term Deprivation of Liberty Graphic 15. Geographical location of the CIEs visited in 2010 253. The sum of CIE establishments are of a markedly penitentiary nature, thereby contravening a basic principle for facilities of this nature, as the CPT emphasises in its seventh General Report (1996, paragraph 29). There is a readily apparent tendency to prioritise the centres’ security and police control measures, to the clear detriment of the inmates’ living conditions and the respect for their rights that are not affected by their ambulatory detention. The main problem lies in the very definition of CIE in the Law, where they are perceived in a negative light; in other words, the model used is a penitentiary one, although it goes on to affirm that the deprivation of liberty should be different to a prison, but it does not specify what this should involve and what its limits are. A CIE has a penitentiary In addition, note should be taken of the inappropriate nature of the management model for these centres that basically involves direct custody by members of the CNP over a prolonged period of time of people with extremely diverse origins, a function that does not suitably fit in with the specific role and training the police have. It would be more logical for the police to pursue their custodial role outside the establishments, assigning the management of everyday life inside the centre to staff trained in social care services. Furthermore, an THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN nature that contravenes the purpose for which they have been created. They are defined by Law in a negative way, with no regulation of the limits on this privation of liberty inappropriate management model is used for these centres 113