Annual Report 2014 of the National Preventive Mechanism adequate for the actual needs of surveillance and attention to inmates and top importance should be given to their training in various fields having effects on the rights of the inmates. In particular, particular emphasis should be given to training on peaceful dispute resolution and oral and non-oral techniques to abort incipient aggressive episodes without having to adopt coercive measures; the correct application of safety and restraint measures; mental health and drug dependence, etc. 155. We must repeat to the public authorities that, when the medical services assist an inmate with injuries (due to the application of coercive measures or for any other reason, either fights between inmates or self-injuries, and those they have when they enter prison from liberty or from any other penitentiary establishment), they must systematically complete the relevant injury report, and send it to the responsible court authority, pursuant to article 262 of the Civil Procedure Act. 156. In accordance with the policy established in the report of the NPM Injury reports on people deprived of their liberty, of 2014, injury reports must be adequately completed in detail, including the allegations made by the inmates on the manner in which the injuries were caused, providing a detailed description of the observed injuries –with photographs of the injuries– and a judgment of compatibility between the observed injuries and the origin attributed to them by the convict. In addition, the specific time and place of the medical examination should be placed on record, identifying the signatory medical practitioner. Such information will facilitate the eventual court investigation, on providing the forensic medical practitioner with further information to evaluate the origin of the injury and the compatibility of the mentioned originating mechanisms. A copy of the injury report must be delivered to the person in question. 157. Also essential for the investigation of the facts is the fast sending to the duty court of the relevant injury report, for the judge to be able to resolve according to his criterion and the contents of the report and order, if appropriate, the exploration of the inmate by the forensic medical practitioner as soon as possible. 158. We must repeat the obligation for public officers to wear their compulsory identification recording the post of work and number of professional document. 159. The “closed regime” implies the application of maximum security criteria, and is the most restrictive type of life contemplated by penitentiary laws, so that it should be applied only as an exception and for the minimum time necessary. We must applaud the implementation of a specific treatment program for inmates in the closed regime, one of the purposes of which is to ensure progression to a higher grade. 160. The inclusion of inmates in the “File of Inmates subject to Special Monitoring (Fichero de Internos de Especial Seguimiento –FIES)” will not give rise to a living regime different from that applicable to them by regulation. 161. The disciplinary regime of convicts should seek to ensure safety and orderly cohabitation. In the course of a disciplinary proceeding, the allegations made by the 70

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