Short-term deprivation of liberty
Monitor (Civil Guard, Barcelona)
Entry to facilities
§80 AR 2014
Separation of
detainees
§81 AR 2014
Self-inflicted
injury
§82 and 83 AR
2014
14. At some facilities, such as the Civil Guard in Bilbao (Vizcaya),
Guadalajara or Puente La Reina (Navarre) or the police stations of
Guadalajara or Retiro district police station in Madrid, detainees still enter
through the main door, which is contrary to the Ombudsman’s opinion.
15. At the facilities of the Local Police in Pamplona (Navarre), the
Ombudsman became aware that persons who were transferred for
identification purposes, pursuant to Article 16 of Organic Act 4/2015, of 30
March, on citizen safety, were held in a jail cell (either communal cells or one
of minimum size) until identification measures were completed. This has
triggered a Recommendation to the City Council of Pamplona, to the effect
that detainees be led to separate facilities from the jail cells, particularly as
this permanence on police facilities does not constitute an interim detention
measure, foreseen in Articles 489 ff. of the Criminal Procedure Act.
16. The Ombudsman insisted on removing all items which detainees existing
which detainees may use to inflict injury upon themselves or to commit
suicide, or to attack custody officers in cells or jail facilities, such as
horizontal bars and locks on the cell doors, ceramic bathroom fixtures, wall or
ledge tiling, etc., which have been noticed in various visited facilities.
Furthermore, the Directorate-General of the Civil Guard has been asked to
forbid detainees entering their cells with water bottles- as was noticed in the
Command Headquarters of Gijón (Asturias) and Guadalajara-, in order to
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