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
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