Annual Report 2013 of the National Preventive Mechanism Complaints of detainees for provision of expired packed food, lack of plastic glasses to drink and bad odour in toilets 54 34. At the interviews held with detainees, no complaints were made about the reading of rights and this obligation was performed at the facilities visited in 2013. Complaints were made as to the food (“I was given cold paella”; “the food is bad”; “the packed food was past its eat before date”; “the food is disgusting”) and, in certain cases, because they were not provided with plastic glasses to drink and had to drink water directly from the tap, as stated by the detainees interviewed at the station of the CNP of the Tetuán District of Madrid. In general, detainees did not complain about having to wait to go to the toilet (“I called the agent and he came in a few minutes”; “when I informed them through the interphone that I wanted to go to the toilet, they came down immediately”; “I had no problems because there are always people in the cells”), or of the attention received when they requested medical attention. Some people did complain of the bad odour in the cells (“although the cleaners mopped the floor in the morning it continued to smell bad”) and of the lack of hygiene of the blankets provided (“I was given a dirty blanket”; “the blankets smell of cell”). Full body search Almost all the detainees stated that they had been given a full body search before entering the cells, although they raised no complaint as to having felt uncomfortable or been humiliated by this practice (“I was searched in the toilets and it was a full body search so that I had to take off all my clothes by parts”; “I was given a full body search, had to pull down my boxers and do sit ups”; “a woman searched me and made me take off my jacket, T-shirt, trousers and panties and I had to do sit ups”). Treatment given to detainees Although most interviewed persons stated that the treatment received from the officers, both at the time of their detention and during their stay in the cells, had been correct, some of them raised complaints for purported ill-treatment or mistreatment. Thus, one detainee interviewed at the CNP Ciudad Lineal District Station (Madrid), stated that his treatment had been correct, except from two women officers who insulted him at the station, saying: “If this one were not here (referring to another detainee who was present), you would have it from me”. Another detainee, interviewed at the CNP Madrid Centro District station, stated that he had been a victim of purported ill-treatment, at the time of his detention and subsequently at the police station. This person’s lawyer filed a complaint before this Institution which is stayed, pursuant to article 17.2 of Basic Law 3/1981, of 6 April, regulating this Institution, since a court proceeding is being conducted for the same facts. One woman detainee interviewed at the Central Registry of Detainees of Madrid, stated that she had been the victim of purported ill-treatment during her detention, showed the marks left where she had been hit and permitted them to be photographed. This was subsequently conveyed to the Security and Justice Area of this Institution, and the relevant action was taken ex officio. The Directorate General for the Police reported that the detainee had refused a medical check-up as recorded in the medical certificate issued by the practitioner himself.