Annual report 2011: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism Food & access to drinking water Local Police in Marchena Municipal Council of Marchena (Seville) 215 Courts of San Bartolomé de Tirajana & Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Dept. of the Presidency, Justice & Equality of the Regional Govt. of the Canary Islands 239 Magistrate’s & Criminal Courts of A Coruña Dept. of the Presidency, Public Administrations & Justice of the Regional Govt. of Galicia 239 The criterion laid down by the NPM is accepted and orders have been given to prohibit third parties from bringing in food for detainees. The criterion laid down by the NPM is rejected on the grounds that this falls under the authority of the police forces that guard the detainees. Safeguarding of the belongings of detainees National Police Force Civil Guard Directorate General for the Police, Ministry of the Interior Directorate General for the Civil Guard, Ministry of the Interior 67 All stations have heat-sealable bags available. 114 The criterion laid down by the Ombudsman is accepted and selfsealing bags have already been acquired at the headquarters in Donostia/San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa) and the barracks in El Astillero, Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz), Sant Antoni de Portmany (Balearic Islands) and Torrelavega (Cantabria) and will be shortly at the headquarters in Tarragona. Fire-fighting measures Establishment National Police Force Civil Guard 96  Competent authority Directorate General for the Police, Ministry of the Interior Directorate General for the Civil Guard, Ministry of the Interior Paragraph of Annual Report 2010 Reply received 56 Signs and extinguishers are distributed to units on request, and consideration is being given to the setting up of a basic evacuation plan that can serve as a guideline to help each establishment prepare its own specific evacuation plan. 103 The criterion laid down by the Ombudsman is accepted and he shortcomings observed have been or are being corrected at the headquarters in A Coruña, Alicante, Ceuta, Gijón (Asturias), Malaga, Murcia, Santander (Cantabria) and Valladolid, and the barracks in Cartagena (Murcia), El Astillero (Cantabria), Inca (Balearic Islands), Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz), the port of Malaga, Sant Antoni de Portmany (Balearic Islands) and Torrelavega (Cantabria).   THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN