54 Case No. 14/04861 A legal case officer at the Ombudsman’s office observed a forced deportation of an Afghan family from Denmark. The family had been refused residence permit and was told to leave the country. Now, the father, mother and a teenage son were waiting at a Danish asylum centre. On an early morning, six police officers showed up at the asylum centre to take the family to an institution for detained asylum seekers. A couple of police officers went in to pick up the family. The father and the son accepted without any protest and started packing, but the mother refused and even when the police officers tried to calm her down, she became increasingly upset. The outcome of it was that she had to be carried down to the waiting police car where a female police officer tried to calm her down. The police officer had to restrain her several times to prevent her from knocking her head against the seats and the car window. Approximately two weeks later the family was deported to Afghanistan, again observed by a legal officer from the Ombudsman’s office. The Ombudsman had no remarks in regard to how the deportation was handled by the police. The Ombudsman monitors the forced deportations of foreigners carried out by the Danish police. One of the objectives is to observe that the police do not use more forcible measures than necessary.