Short-term Deprivation of liberty Autonomous Regional Communities Province Number of detentions with confinement to prison cells Navarre 1,267 Basque Country 2,801 Alava Guipuzcoa Biscay Central bodies Grand Total 434 1,708 659 831 238,610 Source: In-house compilation based on data supplied by the Directorate General of the Police (DGP). On the other hand, the Directorate General of the Police has reported that in 2012 a total of 57,719 transfers of prisoners have been implemented between pris­ on facilities or between those and judicial or healthcare facilities. A total of 57,719 transfers of In relation to the disciplinary proceedings due to alleged bad practices or the al­ leged commission of tortures or ill-treatment by Spanish National Police Force officers against persons deprived of liberty, the Directorate General of the Police has reported that six administrative proceedings were opened in 2012, involving seven officers, none of whom showed repeated behavior. Four of these cases are pending the relevant legal procedure, three of them on alleged offenses of assault by three officers in Madrid, one from the Chamberi District police station, an­ other one from the Mostoles police station and the third one from the Fuen­ labrada police station. The fourth case refers to an alleged illegal detention car­ ried out by an officer from the Central District police station in Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands). The other two proceedings have been closed. One of them referred to an officer from the Tudela police station (Navarre), on alleged insults to a prisoner who was under his/her custody in a hospital center. The last proceedings was closed due to the fact that in the ongoing legal case on alleged ill-treatment of a detainee at the Murcia Immigrant Detention Center (abbrevi­ ated as CIE in Spanish) the discontinuance and temporary closure thereof had been ordered. 6 disciplinary proceedings Throughout 2012, the Civil Guard (abbreviated GC in Spanish) has made a total of 80,466 detentions which implied confinement to prison cells. The Civil Guard has made THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN prisoners have been implemented were opened against members of the Spanish National Police Force 80,466 detentions with confinement to prison cells 29

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