Recommendations
VI.4 Report on injury reports on people deprived of their liberty
Recommendation made to the Ministry of Justice
Recommendation of 26 June 2014.
Promote the appropriate reforms to regulate, in full and homogeneously, in the
entire national territory, the minimum contents of an injury report contemplated
in section 5.4 of the report Injury reports on people deprived of their liberty
Recommendation made to the Office of Secretary of State for Security
Recommendation of 4 June 2014.
1. Establish, within the scope of its powers, an injury report form containing the
minimum data contemplated in section 5.4 of the report Injury reports on
people deprived of their liberty.
2. Give the appropriate instructions to all public medical services for:
- The public officers providing their services at them to complete such report,
which should be available at all healthcare facilities (including those located in
penitentiary centres, centres for the internment of foreign nationals, and
centres for juvenile offenders).
- The relevant copy of the injury report to be delivered directly and without
intermediaries to the person concerned, to the duty court and, if appropriate, to
the court controlling the deprivation of liberty and for the report to be sent
without delay, for the action of the forensic medical practitioner, who is the
person who prepares the report that should be of assistance for the judge to
establish the origin and consequences of the injuries, not to be carried out very
late, when the injuries have disappeared, or when the have materially varied.
- The injury report not to be delivered to the persons having the detainee in
their custody and, if so, in a closed, sealed envelope, appropriately addressed
to the court authority, other than in the events contemplated in paragraph 22 of
Annual Report 2012 of the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture
(where it is duly evidenced that the obtaining of data is necessary for the
prevention of an actual and serious hazard for the public security or for the
repression of criminal offences and, in the case of particularly protected data,
that they are absolutely necessary for the purposes of a specific investigation;
that the request is concrete and specific, since the exercise of massive
requests for data is not compatible with what is mentioned above; that the
request be duly founded, that its relation to the events mentioned be
evidenced); and, in compliance with article 22.4 of Organic Act 15/1999, of 13
December, personal data protection act (LOPD), the data to be cancelled
«when they are not necessary for the investigations for which they were kept».
- The medical interviews with persons deprived of liberty to be held always in
private, without custody personnel present in the area or in areas within sight
or within hearing of the interaction between the medical practitioner and the
detainee, with the patient free from physical restrictions (shackles or other
restraints), other than in cases of reasonable suspicions of risk, in which case
the medical practitioner may agree to carry out the exploration with the
detainee, recording in writing in the report the circumstances in which it was
carried out (in presence of the police, with other persons present, physical
restraints, etc.).
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