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may be accessed, filed and stored. In particular, stricter regulations in this
regard need to be drawn up in regard to incommunicado detention, and suitable
permanent equipment needs to be installed throughout holding areas.
Recordings may be stored at the disposal of those authorities entitled to request
them for a period long enough to guarantee the possibility of comprehensive
external supervision of the holding process.
Evacuation plans in case of
103. In regard to firefighting measures in holding areas, it was urgently
fire need to be established
recommended that evacuation plans be drawn up and that adequate firefighting
urgently
equipment be installed to remedy shortcomings detected at the command
headquarters of A Coruña, Alicante, Ceuta, Gijon (Asturias), Lleida, Malaga,
Murcia, Santander (Cantabria), Toledo, Tres Cantos (Madrid) and Valladolid,
and at the barracks in Alsasua and Tafalla (Navarre), Aviles (Asturias), Cartagena,
El Astillero and Torrelavega (Cantabria), Guzmán el Bueno in Madrid, Ibiza, Inca
and Sant Antoni de Portmany (Balearic Islands), Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz) and
Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña). It must also be stressed that the access
corridor to the holding cells at the command headquarters in Toledo is too narrow
for all three doors to stand open at the same time in case of emergency.
Detainees usually establish
104. Detainees usually establish communication with the officers guarding them
communication with
by means of buzzers or intercoms. Exceptions to this rule were found among the
officers guarding them by
intercom
establishments visited: no such system was available at the barracks in Aviles
(Asturias), and the system in the Guzmán el Bueno barracks in Madrid was in need
of repair. At most of the establishments visited it was found that guards were not
stationed permanently in the holding area while the cells were occupied. At those
establishments where the intercom and CCTV surveillance systems were considered
to be insufficient, it was requested that an officer be stationed in the area adjoining
the holding cells while they were occupied (the command headquarters of A
Coruña, Balearic Islands (Palma de Mallorca), Lleida, Madrid (Tres Cantos),
Malaga, Seville and Tarragona and the barracks in the towns of Aviles (Asturias),
Cartagena (Murcia), Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña) and the airports of El
Prat de Llobregat (Barcelona) and Malaga. However, it was observed that there was
not always a suitable space available in the holding area for a guard to be stationed
there. A surveillance room or a checkpoint should therefore be set up accordingly.
Healthcare procedures and
105. The procedures for providing detainees with health care, and the
the associated shortcomings
shortcomings detected in this regards on the inspection visits made, do not differ
are similar to those listed for
CNP-run establishments.
Medication is prescribed and
substantially from those listed for CNP-run establishments in paragraph 55. The
command headquarters for Madrid (Tres Cantos) and the barracks at Sant Antoni
dispensed by the medical
de Portmany (Balearic Islands) were found not to be supplied with prophylactic
service and handed over by
measures for use with detainees who showed signs of infectious or contagious
guards
diseases. Medication is prescribed and dispensed by the relevant medical services
and handed over to detainees by the officers guarding them. At the command
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