Annual Report 2010 by the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture There are 584 92. As a result of its mainly rural deployment, the Civil Guard has a great many establishments with cells, establishments of many different types: in all there are 2,691. However, this of which 32 are out of service, as they have been ruled unfit. The 56 visited Office is informed by the Secretary of State for Security that holding cells exist at only 584 of these establishments, and those at 32 of them are out of service account for 70% of all because they have been ruled unfit by the Inspectorate General for Security arrests resulting in holding Forces and Personnel [Inspección General de Personal y Servicios de Seguridad], in cells a body answerable to the said Secretary of State. As can be seen from Tables 3 and 9 in paragraph 32 above, 56 Civil Guard-run establishments with holding cells were visited in 2010. At several of these establishments detainees may be held incommunicado, though there was no-one in that situation at the time of the inspection visits made. To make this report easier to understand the generic term “barracks” [in Spanish cuartel] is used for all the establishments visited except those classed as command headquarters. As indicated above, in this first Graphic 6. Geographical locations of the GC-run places of deprivation of liberty visited •••••••••••••••??????? Command Headquarters Barracks Border Control Posts Source: own work. 66 THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN

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