Annual Report 2012: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism Toilets inside a collective cell at a Spanish National Police Force station Photograph 7 in Malaga This Institution insists on the need to improve ventilation, remove bad smells and ensure cleanliness in the area of prison cells In general, the size of cells complies with the provisions set forth by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture 52 34. The Ombudsman Institution must repeat the criteria set forth in paragraphs 52, 53 and 54 of the 2010 Annual Report, and 65, 66 and 67 of the 2011 Annual Report, as regards the need to asses temperature, improve ventilation, remove bad smells and ensure cleanliness in the prison cell area, since the Institution has continued to detect shortcomings in relation to these aspects at those facilities for short-term deprivation of liberty visited during 2012. Shortcomings have also been detected in the lighting of some of the facilities visited. The Ombudsman Institution hereby demands the persons in charge of said places to have them remedied, in compliance with the criteria established in paragraphs 51 of the 2010 Annual Report and 64 of the 2011 Annual Report. 35. On a general basis, the size of cells at the visited facilities complies with the criteria established in paragraphs 49 of the 2010 Annual Report (which –referring to the second General Report from the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture– considered as desirable dimensions for individual living spaces approximately 7 square meters) and 61 of the 2011 Annual Report, with the ex­ ception of 4 out of the 5 cells at the facilities of the Civil Guard in the Algeciras Port (Cadiz), that have a size of 4 square meters. THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN