Annual report 2011: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism Graphic 3. Geographical location of the detention centres for foreign nationals visited in 2011 Valencia 1 Santa Cruz de Tenerife 1 1 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria No specific confinement regime for foreign nationals has yet been drawn up. In response to the criterion laid down by the Ombudsman, the role of police officers at CIEs should be limited to security only. 112  79.  As indicated in paragraph 250 of the Annual Report 2010, Royal Decree 557/2011, which approved new regulations for the implementation of Public General Act [Ley Orgánica] 4/2000, devotes one of its articles to CIEs (Art. 258). Subsection 8 of that article envisages specific regulations to govern the confinement regime for foreign nationals pursuant to Additional Provision Three of Public General Act 2/2009 of December 11, which amended Act 4/2000. More than two years have elapsed since the entry into force of Act 2/2009, but at the time of writing this report no such specific regulations governing the confinement of foreign nationals have yet been drawn up. The instrument drawn up should have the rank of a major regulation, as it may come to govern the exercise of fundamental rights. In this regard it must be said that the Minister of the Interior stated in January 2012 during an appearance before the Committee of the Interior [Comisión de Interior] of the lower house of the Spanish Parliament that his department was to proceed to draw up the said regulations. 80.  At the said appearance the Minister explained that, in line with the recommendations made by the Ombudsman and the criterion laid down in paragraph 253 of the Annual Report 2010, a management model was to be drawn up in which the role of police officers would be curtailed to the tasks for which they are actually trained, i.e. security, while other tasks would be handled by specialist   THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN