Annual report 2011: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism
JI
Magistrate’s Court [Juzgado de Instrucción]
LECrim
Criminal Procedures Act [Ley de Enjuiciamiento Criminal]
LODP
Public General Act on the Ombudsman [Ley Orgánica del Defensor del Pueblo]
LORPM Public General Act on the Criminal Liability of Juveniles [Ley Orgánica reguladora de la responsabilidad penal de los menores]
MER
Education & Respect Modules
NGO
Non-Governmental Organisation
NPM
National Preventive Mechanism against Torture
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or DegradOPCAT
ing Treatment or Punishment (adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in
Resolution 77/199 of December 18, 2002)
PAIEM
Framework Programme for the Integrated Care of the Mentally Ill
PPS
Suicide Prevention Programme
REPM
Regulations Governing Military Detention Centres
ROFDP
Regulations for the Organisation and Workings of the Office of the Ombudsman
RP
Prison Regulations
SES
Office of the Secretary of State for Security (Ministry of the Interior)
SGIP
Office of the Secretary General for Prisons (Ministry of the Interior)
SPT
UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture
STC
Constitutional Court Ruling
STS
Supreme Court Ruling
UCER
Central Expulsion & Deportation Unit (National Police Force)
UCH
Secure Hospital Unit
UIP
Police Intervention Unit
UN
United Nations Organisation
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