I.4.1 Foreign national deportation operations
3 deportation
operations
173. Over 2016, 3 deportation operations were supervised. One of these
operations was carried out by the CNP station in San Fernando (Cádiz) and
a ferry journey was supervised, transferring boat-people, from the police
stations of San Fernando and El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz), and their
disembarkation in Ceuta in police vans, for deportation to Morocco.
The other two operations, to Bogotá (Colombia) and Santo Domingo
(Dominican Republic), were financed by FRONTEX and organised by Spain
through the Central Unit for Expulsions and Deportations [Unidad Central de
Expulsiones y Repatriaciones (UCER)], General Headquarters for
Immigration and Border Control [Comisaría General de Extranjería y
Fronteras (CGEF)].
Fit to travel
§351 AR 2014
174. The Ombudsman made a Recommendation to the DGP to always
complete a medical check-up, in deportation flights, expressly and
previously for all foreign citizens expelled, in order to confirm the absence of
any medical inconvenience in carrying out the expulsion (fit to travel),
either at the centres of source (foreign national detention facilities or
prisons) or by the doctor assigned to the flight operation (in the case of
police stations), pursuant to Article 7 of the FRONTEX Code of Conduct.
This management centre has told us that the General Headquarters for
Immigration and Border Control is examining the possibility of putting this
measure into practice, in order to fulfil our Recommendation.
Nevertheless, during the deportation operations we inspected, we
ascertained that said doctor’s report was not available for all the foreigners
expelled. We did in fact confirm that this documentation is provided when
the foreigner needs to take some kind of medication.
Restraining
measures
§358 AR 2014
Claim procedure
§361 AR 2014
175. Furthermore, a Recommendation was made to the DGP to have a
register book in place at the UCER, in order to enter any restraining
measures used in deportation flights. At the date of this Report, we had still
not received a response as to whether or not our Recommendation had
been accepted.
176. A Recommendation was made to the DGP to provide a claim
procedure as part of the operation, should the deportees consider that their
fundamental rights had been infringed, providing them with a filing receipt
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