Annual Report 2016 - Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism against Torture
Gun racks
§92 AR 2014
22. The Ombudsman’s recommendation that all facilities have gun racks in
place, thereby avoiding armed agents entering the jail area, has been put into
place in nearly all the local police facilities visited: CNP police stations in
Benidorm (Alicante), Gijón (Asturias), Logroño (La Rioja), the JSP of Asturias
and Command Headquarters in Oviedo (Asturias) and Santander, and
barracks in Calahorra (La Rioja).
Gun rack (Local Police in Benidorm (Alicante))
Nevertheless, we have still observed that on some facilities there are armed
public officers entering the jail area (whether or not with loaded guns), as is
the case of the Local Police in Calahorra (La Rioja), Civil Guard of Chiclana
de la Frontera (Cádiz) and Alagón (Zaragoza) or the CNP Headquarters in
Santander (Cantabria).
Toilet inside the
cells and
squatting pans
§95 AR 2014
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23. Toilets inside communal cells is not acceptable, not only due to the
lack of privacy involved but also out of respect for other detainees (smells),
as was the case in Regional Police facilities in Pamplona (Navarre).
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