Annual report 2011: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism
ity and seen. She stated that at the same time one of the police officers also filed
an injury report so that she could be accused of resisting authority: “When I was
arrested I tried to get away because I was not guilty and the policeman did things
to his own body so he could file a medical report. Was it to make me look more
guilty? ... Some people take their authority too far, and what can we do about it?
Nothing … I went to the doctor but I never saw the report. I only have bruises and
the policeman scratched and punched himself, and when the doctors saw him I
had to leave the room”.
No opinion is given here as to whether arrests by the CNP and GC in which force
was used involved proportionate force or not, since this is up to the courts to
decide. However it was learned at the establishments inspected in 2011 that some
detainees had had to be taken to healthcare facilities for treatment following arrests in public places, prior to being taken to police establishments, as per the
following tables.
Table 22. Detainees taken to healthcare facilities prior to their admission
to police establishments
Police HQs &
District Stations
Nº of
detainees*
Nº taken
to hospitals*
Albacete
2,406
900
Almería
4,163
928
186
0
Ayamonte (Huelva)
Castellón de la Plana
Cuenca
2,064
**
506
91
El Ejido (Almería)
1,231
370
Granada
2,824
50
833
47
1,668
42
**
**
Madrid, Central District
7,028
**
Madrid, Chamberí District
1,180
**
**
**
Guadalajara
Huelva
Madrid, Information Brigade
Madrid, Central Registry of Detainees
Source: own work based on data provided by the DGP.
* The DGP reports that the data provided are approximations, as there is no specific statistic for this issue.
** No data provided.
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