Annual Report 2016 - Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism against Torture
avoid the detainees using them to injure themselves.
Cell door, Local Police in Benidorm (Alicante)
Presence of
agents in the
custody area
§84 AR 2014
Incomplete
Record Book
§85 and 86 AR
2014
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17. We should insist on the need for custody officers to be present in the
inmate jail area, in order to avoid the risk of emergency situations, even if
detainees have alarm systems; this is particularly important in cases where
there is no video surveillance in the jail area or inside the cells. A shortage of
officers was observed on facilities of the Local Police in Benidorm (Alicante)
and Alcalá de Guadaira (Seville); CNP police stations in Alcalá de Guadaira
(Seville), the Balearic Islands and Zamora; and Civil Guard facilities in
Casetas (Zaragoza) and Zamora.
18. In most of the facilities visited (except for Civil Guard facilities in
Salamanca, Santander, Zamora and CNP facilities in Gijón, Logroño and
Zaragoza), we have noticed that detainee custody pages held in the Record
and Custody Book are still incomplete and fail to enter all events related to
detainees (e.g. frisks, taking of statements, food offered, etc.), or have not
been completed because the detainee was not jailed.
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