Annual report 2011: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism Gun cabinet at the Mossos d’Esquadra station Photo 3 in Girona As in 2010, it was found that the Detainee Registration and Custody Log was not being properly kept up at CNP and GC establishments 66  54.  It was again found that the Detainee Registration and Custody Log was not being properly filled in at the establishments of the CNP and the GC, so a written notification was sent to the heads of both forces requesting that a reminder be issued of the obligation to comply with SES Instruction 12/2009, which establishes that the said log must be used to note down all incidents in regard to detainees, along with any significant incidents as noted in paragraphs 71 and 116 and elsewhere in the Annual Report 2010. At the presentation of the said report the SPT specifically mentioned completion of this log as a good practice. On the second inspection visit to the Central Registry of Detainees in Madrid it was observed that the shortcomings recorded in 2010 in regard to completion of the Detainee Registration and Custody Log had not been corrected. The log was seen to be completed in a perfunctory manner with little relation to actual events, and custody data were not being filled in diligently and correctly. This may give rise to the undesirable situation of all the steps in the chain of custody of each detainee not being known. Given the large throughput of detainees at the Central Register of Detainees (an average of between 50 and 100 per day) it would be advisable for the said log to be computerised. A similar failure to keep up the custody log properly was observed on the inspection visit to the GC barracks in Bollullos Par del Condado (Huelva). When a detainee was asked questions concerning the conditions under which he was being held, data were obtained that should have been recorded in the custody log but had not been.   THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN