Annual report 2011: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism Table 27.  Foreign nationals confined in CIEs in 2011 CIE Nº of Detainees Men Women Total Algeciras 2,919 157 3,076 Barcelona 1,627 33 1,660 Fuerteventura 118 1 119 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 347 24 371 Madrid 2,342 343 2,685 Malaga 308 117 425 Murcia 1,296 40 1,336 113 12 125 Valencia 1,510 149 1,659 Sum total 10,580 876 11,456 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Source: own work based on data provided by the DGP. Confinement is a means of ensuring that foreign nationals are successfully deported 77.  As indicated in paragraph 250 of the Annual Report 2010, confinement is seen as a means of ensuring that foreign nationals are successfully deported. The data from the DGP presented in the following table reveal that in 2011 there were in all 18,422 deportations of foreign nationals. Table 28. Deportations of foreign nationals residing illegally in Spain in 2010 & 2011 2010 2011 Difference Immediate deportations*  7,297  7,064 -233 Automatic deportations**  3,258  2,244 -1,014 Court-ordered deportations***  8,196  9,114 + 918 Total 18,751 18,422 -329 Source: own work based on data posted on the Ministry of the Interior website. * Persons who attempted to enter Spain at non-authorised border crossing points. ** Persons intercepted on Spanish soil without the proper documentation. *** In 2009 the Ministry of the Interior set up a CNP unit known as BEDEX (Foreign Offender Deportation Brigade), whose remit is to deport foreigners with serious criminal and/or court records, links with terrorism, organised gangs, gender violence or any other serious offence that could pose a threat to public safety. These deportations are ordered by courts and entail a ban on entering Spain and other Schengen signatory countries. Over 40% of those held at CIEs have not been deported 110  Of the 11,456 foreign nationals confined in Spain’s 9 CIEs, 6,825 were eventually deported, as shown in the following table. This means that over 40% of those confined at CIEs in 2011 were not in the end deported from Spain.   THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN