Annual Report 2010 by the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture numbers on the uniforms of members of the state security forces (subsection 2.2), which specifies that numbers must be visible because it is “the right of citizens at all times and with no need for positive action or request on their part to identify the officers who are providing the relevant service or function, and the duty of such officers to facilitate this”. The badge numbers on the uniforms and work clothes of CNP officers are removable (they currently comprise a rectangular plastic badge-holder attached with two clips). A more suitable system should be established for ensuring compliance with this duty to identify oneself, which the regulations require be met at all times. It was also observed that badge numbers were printed in lettering that was not easily readable, particularly at the so-called “courtesy distance” (120 cm). The font should be changed to make the numbers easier to read. Belongings confiscated in 67. Arresting officers conduct an initial, superficial search of each detainee. the exhaustive search prior Subsequently, at police establishments, detainees are subjected to a more to admission are stored and logged in the Detainee Registration and Custody exhaustive search before they are admitted to the cells. At this time their personal belongings and any items of clothing with which they might injure Log, with the signature of themselves or cause harm to other detainees or to police officers (chains, the detainee affixed in belts, scarves, shoelaces, watches, rings, lighters, matches, etc) are confiscated acknowledgement. and stored in a plastic bag which is heat-sealed to prevent anyone from accessing the contents. At some police stations, e.g. Segovia, no official bags were available and ordinary plastic bags or envelopes were used. The belongings confiscated are logged in the Detainee Registration and Custody Log, and the signature of the detainee is affixed in acknowledgement. Objects are stored in cupboards or lockers in the holding area itself, with more valuable objects being kept in safes. Reminders were issued of 68. Police searches in which detainees are required to strip fully naked to the obligation to record in determine whether they are carrying any dangerous objects or incriminating the Detainee Registration and Custody Log the reasons for searches evidence in the folds or other parts of their bodies are regulated by SES Instructions 7/1996 and 19/2005, the latter of which was drawn up in response to various requiring detainees to strip reports and recommendations made by this Office. On the inspection visits to naked, and to report such some establishments [the headquarters of Asturias (in Oviedo), the Canary searches to the courts Islands (in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) and Cantabria (in Santander) and the district police stations of Aviles and Gijon (Asturias), Barcelona-El Prat airport, the Central District of Madrid, Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz), Málaga, San Sebastian (Guipúzcoa) and Segovia], reminders had to be given of the obligation to record such searches in the Detainee Registration and Custody Log, detailing the reasons why they were carried out and informing the courts accordingly. Women must be searched by female officers. The 69. Female detainees must be searched by female police officers, though SES utmost respect is required Instruction 12/2007 makes allowances for emergency situations. If no female in the case of transsexuals 56 officers are available at the establishment in question, female officers from other THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN