Annual Report 2013 of the National Preventive Mechanism
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39 deaths by suicide
100. Of the deaths that occurred in 2013, 39 were due to suicide.
Application of the PPS should
be improved
In the light of the information made available at CP Villabona (Asturias), in 2013, two deaths occurred due to suicide before the visit,
none of the deceased inmates was included at that time in the PPS
(Program for the Prevention of Suicides) and that four suicide attempts occurred in 2012, only one of those inmates being included in
the program, which would indicate the need to improve the practical
implementation of the program to detect the suicide risk more efficiently. In addition, inmates supporting the PPS do not receive any
specific training to perform the tasks entrusted to them, which should
be remedied. The SGIP accepted the criterion of this Institution and,
accordingly, amendments were made to the procedure of participation
of the PPS and the controls of the scheduling of training courses will
be increased.
Standard forms
At CP Puerto I (Cádiz), in turn, the review of the clinical records of
the inmates showed that, in the check-ups made at their entry, the
standard forms of the PPS are not used on a routine basis, with the
relevant application of the scales for evaluation of the risk of suicide,
which should be remedied.
Protocol for body and cell
searches
101. At CP Puerto I (Cádiz) various statements were taken from inmates who informed us that they had been body searched without
any overall or that their cell had been searched in their absence, so
that the application at the centre of the body and cell searches protocol should be reviewed and it should be verified that overalls are
available to the inmates, as established by paragraph 136 of Annual
Report 2011
Action the case of suspicion
that an inmate conceals
narcotics
102. If it is suspected that an inmate conceals narcotic substances
in his body, the SGIP adopts a protocol contemplated in point 3.5 of
Instruction 3/2011, related to the Plan for general participation relating to illegal drugs at the penitentiary institution. Said paragraph 3.5
establishes that, if after a nude body search is made, it is still suspected that an inmate carries any narcotic substance in his body, he
will be offered the possibility of submitting to a radiological test and,
if negative, the director of the CP will request the responsible court
authority for court authorisation for the purpose.
Recommendation for the
X-ray exploration of inmates
to be contemplated in a basic
law
According to the SGIP, the making of radiological explorations in this
cases is founded on article 23 LOGP and article 68 RP, which refer
only to property and body searches, which, in the opinion of this Institution, are not similar to said tests and in any case are less damaging than these tests, so that it cannot constitute the specific legal
provision of the measure limiting the right to privacy required by article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights and Judgment
207/1996, of 16 December of the Constitutional Court. Accordingly,
a Recommendation has been made to the Ministry for the Interior for
it to undertake an initiative or reform of legislation, so that the radiological exploration of inmates at CPs to be contemplated expressly
by a basic law as regards its most essential aspects, notwithstanding
the fact that a provision of lower ranking may provide a more detailed
regulation, including, inter alia, each and every one of the events and
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