Annual report 2011: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism II.2.  Military Detention Centres Two EDMs were inspected in 2011, both located in the Canary Islands 107.  Two military detention centres (EDMs) were inspected in 2011, both of them located in the Canary Islands: one in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the other it San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Santa Cruz de Tenerife). Graphic 4. Geographical location of the military detention centres inspected in 2011 San Cristóbal de La Laguna 1 1 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria A recommendation has been issued to the Ministry of Defence for the regulation of conjugal visits, access to mobile telephones and searches of cells and inmates, and for an organisation to co-ordinate all EDMs to be set up 130  108.  Investigations following the first inspection visits to EDMs in 2010 continued on into 2011. In the course of those investigations it was noted that there was no single body in charge of coordinating all the EDMs run by the Ministry of Defence. In practice, this means that each branch of the Armed Forces interprets the relevant regulations (basically Ministerial Order 97/1993 of September 30) and procedures for action in its own way, and that substantial differences may therefore exist in the conditions in which detention takes place and in the regime of arrests for serious offences. Likewise, differences from one EDM to another in technical, material and human resources were observed. An examination of the regulations applicable to EDMs revealed a number of shortcomings, e.g. the absence of regulations covering important issues such as the possibility of detainees receiving conjugal visits as enviaged in Article 45 of Royal Decree 190/1996 of February 9, which approved prison regulations; allowing detainees unrestricted   THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN