Annual Report 2014 of the National Preventive Mechanism 66. Police officers and penitentiary public officers must compulsorily bear their identification number in a visible place while they are on service, to facilitate the investigation in the case of complaints for ill-treatment. In addition, it is essential, in the case of breach of such duty, for adequate corrective measures to be adopted. 67. It would be desirable to implement a suicide prevention program at those facilities lacking one, and to provide greater psychiatric and psychological assistance, particularly in mean- and long-term deprivation of liberty. 68. Finally, it would be advisable to limit the exposure to the media of police detentions, particularly in cases particularly brought to the attention of the public, since the broadcasting of handcuffed persons leaving their homes or accessing police or court buildings contravenes the regulation on detentions contemplated in article 520.1 of the LECrim. Such situations are thus to be avoided by the police force, since they are in themselves degrading treatment. 42

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