Places of short-Term Deprivation of Liberty they should prove necessary the Command and Co-ordination Centre would be informed and the fact of the search would be recorded in the detainee’s file in the log. 198. Female detainees are searched by female officers of the Regional Police Female detainees are Force (who account for around 9% of the total) or by female officers drafted in searched by from other forces if necessary. female officers 199. The officers in charge of the establishments visited reported that detainees Verbal notification of the were informed verbally of their right to request habeas corpus, although that right right to habeas corpus is does not appear specifically in Article 520.2 LECrim. No written notification is given given, however. This could be added to the forms used so that a proper record is kept of all the information provided. 200. It was reported that juveniles detained were not usually held in cells or Juveniles are held in handcuffed unless circumstances made this advisable. Any juveniles held in cells individual cells and are not are always placed in single-occupancy cells. Juveniles are moved in unmarked handcuffeds police cars by officers in plain clothes, in line with the force’s internal protocol on the transfer of detainees (PF: 2010-05). 201. At the establishments visited it was observed that a registration book and a A detainee custody log & detainee custody log were kept, in which all occurrences in regard to each detainee registration book are kept were recorded. IV. Local Police Force Establishments 202. Local police forces are armed civilian law enforcement agencies whose Armed civilian law hierarchical organisation and structure are established pursuant to Article 52.1 of enforcement agencies with Public General Act 2/1986 of March 13 on Security Forces. The same Act establishes that local police forces are part of the security forces of the state, and allocates specific functions to them, along with the job of participating along with a hierarchical organisation & structure. They join with the other security forces of the state in matters of other security forces in matters of judicial policing and public safety. Regulatory judicial policing and public authority over local police forces lies with the regional autonomous communities, safety. pursuant to the provisions the aforesaid Public General Act 2/1986, without prejudice to such additional structures for local police forces as may be established Each force has its own disciplinary regime by each municipal corporation. Their basic remit is laid down in Article 53 of Act 2/1986. The disciplinary regime for local forces is established in their individual regulations in each case. The mayor of each municipality acts as Chief of the Local Police, pursuant to Article 21.1.i) of Act 7/1985 of April 2 on basic regulations for local structures. THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN 97

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