Annual report 2011: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism Recreation room in the CIE Photo 40 at Santa Cruz de Tenerife The women’s module at the CIE in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria needs to be relocated or insulated against noise. The problem of unpleasant odours in the staff area of the CIE in Valencia have not been solved This Office considers the location of the women’s module at the CIE in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to be unacceptable, since it is very close to the area where the dogs of the CNP Canine Unit are kept, and their constant barking (noted during the inspection visit) prevents detainees from resting properly even during the day. This module should either be relocated or insulated against noise. The problem of unpleasant odours in the staff area of the CIE in Valencia, mentioned in paragraph 254 of the Annual Report 2010, remain unsolved. Repeated requests from this Office for partition screens to be installed in the showers to protect the privacy of detainees have been met at the CIE in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where it was observed that the necessary work had been done, but not at the CIE in Valencia, where no such work had been done. The DGP reports that this work will be carried out when funding becomes available. Showers in the CIE in Santa Photo 41 Cruz de Tenerife 124    THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN