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.
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