Annual report 2011: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism Recreational material at the CIE in Santa Cruz de Photo 37 Tenerife Yard time should be increased and yards should have roofed areas so that detainees can go outside in bad weather. 122  104.  Article 29 of the Ministerial Order of February 22, 1999 establishes that detainees should be allowed at least two hours exercise a day. Complaints were received from detainees in this regard, e.g. at the CIE in Valencia, where they were allowed outdoors for three hours per day but considered that this was insufficient, and detainees complained that no other activities were laid on to help them pass the time. The Ombudsman considers that yard time should be increased, and that security issues and risk of absconding should not be considered as good reasons for not doing this, as stated in paragraph 272 in regard to the CIE in Murcia. Measures of the kind observed on the inspection visit to the CIE in Santa Cruz de Tenerife can be taken: the exercise yards there have special fencing that detainees cannot climb. This Office also maintains that yards should have roofed areas so that detainees can go outside in bad weather. In this regard, it was observed during the inspection visit to the CIE in Santa Cruz de Tenerife that part of the yard had been roofed over. It was also observed that the yards at the CIEs in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Valencia had no roofed areas at the time of the inspection, though the DGP reports that in Valencia the relevant work will be done when funding becomes available.   THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN