Visits made
I.1
Short-term deprivation of liberty
5. The DGP reported that, in 2014, a total 38,419 identifications were carried out,
pursuant to article 20.2. of Organic Act 1/1992, of 21 February, on the protection of
citizen security. Of that total, 19,658 were made on foreign nationals and, of these,
8,041 were carried out in Madrid.
6. In 2014, the total number of detentions in cells made by the CNP, the Civil
Guard and autonomous police was 335,571, meaning a decrease in respect of the
detentions carried out in 2013, in which 361,066 people were detained, as shown in the
following table.
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Detentions in cells
TABLE
POLICE CORPS
National Police Force
Civil Guard
Ertzaintza (Basque Country)
Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalonia)
Foral Police of Navarre
Canary Islands Police
NUMBER OF DETAINEES
213.089
(42,245 for infringement of the immigration Act)
69.314
6.836
45.230
1.062
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Total
335.571
7. Annex II to this report shows the following data:
- Detentions with confinement in cells made by the CNP and the Civil Guard, in
terms of autonomous communities, autonomous cities and provinces, and those
carried out by the various autonomous police forces in the territories within their
competence.
- Complaints filed for purported malpractice or purported torture, ill-treatment,
cruel or inhuman treatment inflicted by officers of the various police forces on
person deprived from liberty, in 2014, at official facilities.
- Statistic information provided by the Office of the Secretary of State for Security,
contained in the software contemplated in the National Plan for Human Rights, on the
complaints for police conduct that could be purported acts of torture, illtreatment or denial of safeguards to detainees, in 2013. This information
supplements that provided earlier by the DGP and the DGGC, contemplated in
paragraph 13 of the NPM annual report 2013.
- Activity registered at the Centre for Support to Security, answerable to the
autonomous body Madrid Salud, of Madrid City Council.
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