Annual Report 2010 by the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture and the services offered by specialist non-governmental organisations, for which public funding is available. No receipts are given 87. Once a superficial search of the persons held and of their belongings has for belongings been conducted, objects liable to cause injuries, cameras and mobile phones confiscated equipped with cameras are confiscated. No receipts are given for these belongings, which are held under the responsibility of the surveillance staff. This is a shortcoming that should be corrected. The restraints available to 88. In cases of resistance or violent behaviour (e.g. resistance at the time of the CNP are used in case of embarkation on the return journey), the general measures of restraint and resistance or violent behaviour coercion available to the CNP are employed. It was indicated that if any injuries occur an evaluation by the medical service must be carried out, and a record must be kept on the relevant individual file. At Madrid-Barajas airport there is an isolation room. A request has been filed for this room to be provided with CCTV surveillance and recording equipment. Information forms and 89. There are forms available in several languages containing information on interpreting services are specific rights according to the type of administrative procedure applicable (denial available of entry or international protection). Asylum proceedings at Madrid-Barajas airport are handled directly by the Asylum & Refugee Office (OAR), and at the other posts they are handled by CNP officers, who are required to send the relevant documents via the fastest possible channels to the said office. If interpreters are needed they are called in from a company under contract, which guarantees the availability of a wide range of languages. II. Civil Guard Establishments An armed military law 90. Art. 9.b of the Public General Act 12/2007 of October 22 on Security Forces enforcement agency with a establishes that the Civil Guard is a an armed military law enforcement agency mainly rural remit and 79,586 members with a mixed command structure: it is answerable to the Ministry of the Interior in its role as a police force, under the legislation on the security forces of the state, and to the Ministry of Defence in its military missions. In times of war and states of emergency it is answerable exclusively to the Ministry of Defence. The Director General for the Police and Civil Guard is the joint head of both national-level law enforcement agencies. Under the distribution of areas of authority established in Article 11.2 of the aforesaid Act, the remit of the Civil Guard covers mainly rural areas and territorial waters. The tasks allocated to it are specified in Articles 11, 12.1.B) and 13-15 of the Act, which also sets out the disciplinary framework applicable to its 79,586 members. The central and peripheral organisation structure of the Civil Guard at the time of writing this report is shown in the graphic below: 62 THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN

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