Annual report 2011: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism
Monitor screens need to be
installed in custody areas
40. The Office of the Ombudsman considers that, in order to permit custodial
officers to react rapidly to any incident in the cells, screens for monitoring videosurveillance images should be modernised and that such screens should be installed in the custody areas, regardless of whether there are already screens in the
access control area of the establishment, as indicated in paragraph 55 of the Annual Report 2010. On the inspection visit to the Central Registry of Detainees in
Madrid in 2011 it was found that the said criteria had been followed and that 5
monitors covering the cameras in the cells had been installed in the area adjacent
to the cell area.
New monitor at the CNP
Central District station
Photo 1
in Madrid
Obsolete monitor at the
CNP Chamberí District
Photo 2
station in Madrid
Inspection visits revealed a
lack of audio call systems
at some establishments
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41. On the inspection visits to the CNP headquarters in Granada, the Central
Registry of Detainees in Madrid, the CNP district police station in Huelva, the
CNP Centre for Primary Assistance and Detention of Foreign Nationals at the
port of Almería, the local police stations in Berja (Almería), La Carolina (Jaén)
and Sueca (Valencia), the courthouse complex in Ayamonte (Huelva) and the
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