Annual Report 2012: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism INE Spanish National Statistics Institute LECrim Spanish Code of Criminal Procedure LODP Organic Law on the Office of the Ombudsman Institution LOEx Organic Law on Foreign Nationals LORPM Organic Law regulating the criminal responsibility of minors MER Education and Respect Ward NPM National Preventive Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment (National Mechanims for the Prevention of Torture) OAR Spanish Office of Refuge and Asylum NGO Non-governmental Organization UN Organization of the United Nations OPCAT Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrad­ ing Treatment or Punishment (adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in resolution 77/199, of 18 December 2002) PAIEM Framework program for the comprehensive care of the mentally ill PPS Suicide Prevention Program RP Prison Regulations SAMUR Local Emergency and Rescue Service SES Office of the Secretary of State for Security (Ministry of the Interior) SGIP Office of the Secretary General for Prisons (Ministry of the Interior) SOAJP Suspension of the Legal Guidance and Assistance Service for Prisoners SPT UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture STC Decision of the Spanish Constitutional Court STS Decision of the Spanish Supreme Court TAI Technical Intervention Assistants TAIEX Project for Technical Assistance Information Exchange (European Commission) TSJ High Court of Justice UCER Central Unit for Deportation and Repatriation (Spanish National Police Force) UCH Prison Hospital Wards UIP Police Action Unit VIH Human Immunodeficiency Virus 10 THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN