Medium-term Deprivation of Liberty Figure 3. Geographical location of the CIEs visited in 2012 1 1 Barcelona 1 Madrid 1 1 1 1 Valencia 1 1 Algeciras 47. Three of the visits undertaken to CIEs, specifically to the ones in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia, were multidisciplinary visits. All of them included par­ ticipation of a technical expert in legal and forensic medicine, and the visit to Valencia also included a female graduate in psychology. The goal of these visits was to make an in-depth study and assessment of the medical assistance pro­ vided at these centers, besides detecting and checking, as has been previously referred, if the shortcomings identified in previous visits had been permanently remedied. The goal of the The methodology applied during the visits, in order to make an in-depth analysis of such medical assistance, has been as follows: initial interview with the director of the CIE; interviews with all the healthcare personnel that was on duty at the center during the visit; attendance to some of the medical consultations that were scheduled to be carried out during the stay of the visit team at the center and implementation of an analysis of a significant number of clinical histories, as well as carrying out personal interviews with (and, as the case may be, medical check­ up) of such inmates. The cases were chosen taking into account the following criteria: inmates who had needed medical assistance during the first day of the visit; inmates who, through questionnaires provided for this purpose, had re­ ported to the members of the visit team that they had been victims of assault by members of the Spanish National Police Force on duty at the Center or else had witnessed some such case; inmates who, through questionnaires provided for this purpose, had expressed to the members of the visiting team, their discontent Interviews have been held THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN multidisciplinary visits undertaken was to make an in-depth assessment of the medical assistance provided with the director, healthcare personnel and inmates of the CIE, in addition to attending some medical consultations and studying a significant number of medical histories 67