Annual Report 2010 by the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture Search procedures are 222. Search procedures are largely similar to those used by other law similar to those used by enforcement agencies: an initial superficial search is conducted at the time of other law enforcement agencies arrest, followed by another, more thorough search on arrival at the police establishment, with a view to confiscating valuables and objects deemed potentially hazardous. These objects are noted and stored until detainees leave the facilities. Female detainees are searched by female officers. If there are no female officers on duty or the local force in question has no female officers — as is the case in Haro (La Rioja) — officers from other forces are asked to assist. Records of strip searches In most establishments it was also reported that a record was made of any strip must be kept in detainee searches conducted and the courts were informed accordingly. The local police logs and the courts must be informed forces in Calahorra and Haro (La Rioja), Pamplona (Navarre) and San Sebastian (Guipuzcoa) did not do this, so they were reminded that they must make a record of searches of detainees, must inform the courts of such actions, and must note down both the reason why the search was conducted and its outcome. In some cases it was 223. The officers in charge of some of the establishments visited reported that reported that detainees detainees were informed of their right to request habeas corpus as a way of were informed of the possibility of requesting habeas corpus. All establishments had detainee custody logs ensuring judicial monitoring of their detention, but only the local police in Cordoba did this in writing, which is considered good practice. All the establishments visited had detainee custody logs, though the practices observed in this regard varied widely. Juveniles are not usually 224. Any juveniles detained are not usually held in cells. The only exception held in cells found to this practice was in Santander (Cantabria), where it was reported that juveniles were always placed in cells. V. Courthouse holding cells These cells hold prison 225. These cells are intended to hold prison inmates and persons detained by inmates and detainees members of law enforcement agencies who are taken there from their respective brought to appear before the courts. police stations, barracks or prisons to appear before the courts. Being located in They may depend on the courthouse buildings, they may depend on either the senior judge or the senior judge or the presiding judge of the panel or court, depending on whether the court in presiding judge of the question operates with a single judge or a panel of judges. Depending on court. If the mechanisms for justice administration whether or not the mechanisms for running the administration of justice have been devolved to the autonomous community in question, they may be answerable to the Spanish Ministry of Justice or to the Regional Ministry of the region in question. Moreover, in the holding cells in the courthouse at Plaza de Castilla in Madrid the SGIP is in charge of custody, which means that prison 102 THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN