31. From the range of different types of places of deprivation of liberty listed in
the previous chapter, establishments of the following types were visited in 2010:
• National Police Force headquarters, district stations and central registries.
• Civil Guard headquarters and barracks.
• Establishments of the Regional Police Force of Navarre.
• Stations and other establishments of the Ertzaintza.
• Stations of the Mossos d’Esquadra.
• Municipal
holding cells for detainees and other local police force establishments.
• Courthouse holding cells.
• Waiting
areas for persons denied access and asylum seekers at border control posts.
• Military detention centres.
• Detention Centres for Foreigh Nationals.
• Prisons.
• Centres for young offenders.
• Secure hospital Units.
• Vehicles for the transporting persons in custody.
• Procedure for the repatriating foreign nationals.
32. Places of deprivation of liberty in all 17 of Spain’s regional autonomous
communities and in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla were visited. In this
first year of inspections, emphasis was placed on carrying out a large number of
inspection visits, so as to enable a preliminary picture to be drawn up of the situation
as regards deprivation of liberty in Spain as a whole. In all, 231 inspection visits were
made, including the exercise carried out at the Madrid V prison (Soto del Real) in the
context of the European NPM Project under the auspices of the Council of Europe.
Table 1. Number of places visited per
regional autonomous community
Places visited per regional autonomous
community
Andalusia
Aragon
Principality of Asturias
Canary Islands
Cantabria
Castilla-La Mancha
Castilla y Leon
Catalonia
Extremadura
Galicia
Balearic Islands
A. Community of Madrid
Region of Murcia
A. Community of Navarre
Basque Country
La Rioja
A. Community of Valencia
Autonomous City of Ceuta
Autonomous City of Melilla
Total
THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN
Numerous different types
of places of deprivation of
liberty were visited at
national, regional and local
levels
A total of 231 places of
deprivation of liberty were
visited, to enable an overall
picture of the situation to
be drawn up
Number of places visited,
broken down by
regional autonomous
communities
31
9
13
7
11
9
20
2
6
10
12
21
5
13
22
8
13
4
5
231
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