7. In year 2012, a total of 52 visits have been carried out. Their distribution, taking into account the typology of the facilities, is shown in table below. Their geographical location and classification, according to the typology of the visited fa­ cilities, is shown in Figure 1. In 2011 a total of 52 visits was carried out Table 1. Typology of the places of deprivation of liberty visited Places Police stations and other places of short-term custody; Spanish National Police Force Number of visits 18 Local Police 7 Prison facilities 6 Barracks and other places of short-term custody; Civil Guard 5 Autonomous police forces (Mossos d’Esquadra, Ertzaintza and Policia Foral) 4 Immigrant Detention Centers 4 Centers for juvenile offenders 3 Operations for the repatriation of foreigners 2 Prison cells in court buildings 1 Prison hospital wards 1 Social health care residences 1 Total 52 8. From the total of 52 visits carried out in 2012, 12 were of a multidisciplinary nature. Some of the visited facilities had been previously inspected, but a follow­ up was considered appropriate in order to check compliance of the reported rec­ ommendations and to identify new eventual shortcomings. In the specific case of the Immigrant Detention Centers, these follow-up visits have been carried out together with external technicians, so as to pay special attention to the medical or psychological aspects. Twelve of the visits were multidisciplinary The collaboration of the external technicians, experts in legal and forensic medi­ cine, in psychiatry and psychology, has contributed to provide –as also occurred in 2011–, a particularly qualified focus at the time of conducting the individual interviews with the persons deprived of liberty and this has allowed for a better analysis of the conditions of deprivation of liberty, as well as of the potential bad practices or risks of ill-treatment which may occur. 9. As novelties this year, the Ombudsman Institution highlights the visits car­ ried out to the social health care center “San Jose” (Toledo), and the one con­ ducted during the repatriation flight for foreigners organized by the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (FRONTEX). THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN In 2012 a visit was carried out to a social health care residence for the disabled and the elderly 17