Annual report 2011: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism Blankets Establishment National Police Force Competent authority Directorate General for the Police, Ministry of the Interior Paragraph of Annual Report 2010 Reply received 61 Police establishments are provided with blankets on request. Civil Guard Directorate General for the Civil Guard, Ministry of the Interior 108 The criterion laid down by the Ombudsman is accepted and sufficient mattresses have been provided at the barracks in Eivissa (Balearic Islands), and clean blankets are now provided at the headquarters in Lleida and the barracks at El Prat de Llobregat airport (Barcelona) and the port of Malaga. Mossos d’Esquadra Dept. of the Interior of the Regional Govt. of Catalonia 172 The recommendation is rejected. Local Police in Marchena Municipal Council of Marchena (Seville) 217 The criterion laid down by the Ombudsman is accepted and clean blankets will be made available to detainees. Waiting areas for persons denied entry & asylum seekers Competent authority Directorate General for the Police, Ministry of the Interior 104  Paragraph of Annual Report 2010 76-89 Reply received It is reported that AENA has been asked to establish a protocol for the management of video images at the establishment at Madrid-Barajas airport. At El Prat airport in Barcelona video-surveillance systems have been installed in the waiting areas for persons denied entry and asylum seekers, and monitors at the entrance to those areas, which are constantly supervised by a CNP officer. It is planned to extend this system when funding becomes available.   THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN