Situation of deprivation of liberty Adequate room for mechanical restraint at Residential Centre “Santa Teresa de Arévalo” 218. At Residential Centre “Santa Teresa de Arévalo”, the personnel customarily search the room for potentially hazardous objects or unauthorised belongings. It would be desirable that, when such searches have to be made for security reasons, they be done in the presence of the inmate and with his cooperation, to avoid the feeling of defencelessness and lack of privacy that the contrary practice could imply. 219. Centres of these features should have call or alarm systems in the rooms of the detainees or alternative systems in those cases in which immediate assistance of personnel to detainees is required. In this respect, lacks were detected at both centres. Room searches in presence of inmates Call or alarm systems in rooms 220. The centres should comply with the emergency and evacuation plans. The Healthcare Centre “El Pinar” (Teruel) did not have fume detectors or emergency exits and should make the necessary adaptations to the emergency evacuation facilities. The Department of Healthcare, Social Welfare and Family of the General Deputation of Aragon reported that the evacuation plan of the centre and the necessary works were being reviewed. Emergency and evacuation plans In turn, at the Residential Centre “Santa Teresa de Arévalo” (Arévalo, Ávila), because only one nurse and five support persons are available at night for the entire centre, the doors to the rooms are locked to prevent inmates from exiting them, which, in addition to the fact that not all rooms have call systems, could cause a safety problem, if urgent evacuation were necessary or should a patient need assistance at night. Accordingly, a solution should be found conforming to the emergency and evacuation plans. Locked doors to rooms could create a safety problem 221. The facilities of the visited centres were in general correct, al- Facilities though in both cases certain renovations should be considered to 153