highlight how their action is still limited due to insufficient resources and indicate the need to increase the means available to monitors. Also Spain and Germany state that the time and resources made available to the team are a determining factor in the choice of flights to monitor. 3.7 Number of monitors employed during forced return operations and presence of support figures (interpreters, doctors, psychologists, etc.) European monitors normally send 1 or 2 monitors The Italian National Guarantor states it is per flight. The United Kingdom declares it absolutely necessary that the staff includes employs at least 2 monitors for each flight, while at least one person with legal skills and using multiple subjects in the pre-departure looks forward to the possibility of being phase that is when the returnees are transferred supported by an adequately prepared by bus from the detention centre to the airport. cultural mediator. A financial allocation would be needed to allow to have at least Spain generally uses 2 monitors, as does Belgium, one of these two figures (preferably both), where, however, the presence of interpreters is especially during the consular interview not generally required since both escort and with the returnee in the pre-departure monitors are often trilingual (Dutch, French and phase. English). Often the Belgian escort teams include Arabic speaking officers. In the Netherlands, one or more monitors are used according to the number of subjects to be returned, the duration of the flight or the phase of the return to be monitored. Germany, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Malta, Cyprus, Finland and Italy use only 1 monitor per flight. Denmark usually sends a monitor, but in case of need and a greater number of people subject to repatriation, it may send 2 monitors. In Greece, 1 or 2 monitors participate in the operations, depending on the number of returnees. In Switzerland, there are always 2 monitors with more than 12 returnees. Often, and in case of need, they are accompanied by medical personnel. 3.8 Monitoring of the post-return phase