Annual Report 2010 by the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture
There are 584
92. As a result of its mainly rural deployment, the Civil Guard has a great many
establishments with cells,
establishments of many different types: in all there are 2,691. However, this
of which 32 are out of
service, as they have been
ruled unfit. The 56 visited
Office is informed by the Secretary of State for Security that holding cells exist
at only 584 of these establishments, and those at 32 of them are out of service
account for 70% of all
because they have been ruled unfit by the Inspectorate General for Security
arrests resulting in holding
Forces and Personnel [Inspección General de Personal y Servicios de Seguridad],
in cells
a body answerable to the said Secretary of State. As can be seen from Tables 3
and 9 in paragraph 32 above, 56 Civil Guard-run establishments with holding
cells were visited in 2010. At several of these establishments detainees may be
held incommunicado, though there was no-one in that situation at the time of
the inspection visits made. To make this report easier to understand the generic
term “barracks” [in Spanish cuartel] is used for all the establishments visited
except those classed as command headquarters. As indicated above, in this first
Graphic 6. Geographical locations of the GC-run places of deprivation
of liberty visited
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Command Headquarters
Barracks
Border Control Posts
Source: own work.
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