I.4.1 Foreign national deportation operations 3 deportation operations 173. Over 2016, 3 deportation operations were supervised. One of these operations was carried out by the CNP station in San Fernando (Cádiz) and a ferry journey was supervised, transferring boat-people, from the police stations of San Fernando and El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz), and their disembarkation in Ceuta in police vans, for deportation to Morocco. The other two operations, to Bogotá (Colombia) and Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), were financed by FRONTEX and organised by Spain through the Central Unit for Expulsions and Deportations [Unidad Central de Expulsiones y Repatriaciones (UCER)], General Headquarters for Immigration and Border Control [Comisaría General de Extranjería y Fronteras (CGEF)]. Fit to travel §351 AR 2014 174. The Ombudsman made a Recommendation to the DGP to always complete a medical check-up, in deportation flights, expressly and previously for all foreign citizens expelled, in order to confirm the absence of any medical inconvenience in carrying out the expulsion (fit to travel), either at the centres of source (foreign national detention facilities or prisons) or by the doctor assigned to the flight operation (in the case of police stations), pursuant to Article 7 of the FRONTEX Code of Conduct. This management centre has told us that the General Headquarters for Immigration and Border Control is examining the possibility of putting this measure into practice, in order to fulfil our Recommendation. Nevertheless, during the deportation operations we inspected, we ascertained that said doctor’s report was not available for all the foreigners expelled. We did in fact confirm that this documentation is provided when the foreigner needs to take some kind of medication. Restraining measures §358 AR 2014 Claim procedure §361 AR 2014 175. Furthermore, a Recommendation was made to the DGP to have a register book in place at the UCER, in order to enter any restraining measures used in deportation flights. At the date of this Report, we had still not received a response as to whether or not our Recommendation had been accepted. 176. A Recommendation was made to the DGP to provide a claim procedure as part of the operation, should the deportees consider that their fundamental rights had been infringed, providing them with a filing receipt 111

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