Short-term deprivation of liberty Monitor (Civil Guard, Barcelona) Entry to facilities §80 AR 2014 Separation of detainees §81 AR 2014 Self-inflicted injury §82 and 83 AR 2014 14. At some facilities, such as the Civil Guard in Bilbao (Vizcaya), Guadalajara or Puente La Reina (Navarre) or the police stations of Guadalajara or Retiro district police station in Madrid, detainees still enter through the main door, which is contrary to the Ombudsman’s opinion. 15. At the facilities of the Local Police in Pamplona (Navarre), the Ombudsman became aware that persons who were transferred for identification purposes, pursuant to Article 16 of Organic Act 4/2015, of 30 March, on citizen safety, were held in a jail cell (either communal cells or one of minimum size) until identification measures were completed. This has triggered a Recommendation to the City Council of Pamplona, to the effect that detainees be led to separate facilities from the jail cells, particularly as this permanence on police facilities does not constitute an interim detention measure, foreseen in Articles 489 ff. of the Criminal Procedure Act. 16. The Ombudsman insisted on removing all items which detainees existing which detainees may use to inflict injury upon themselves or to commit suicide, or to attack custody officers in cells or jail facilities, such as horizontal bars and locks on the cell doors, ceramic bathroom fixtures, wall or ledge tiling, etc., which have been noticed in various visited facilities. Furthermore, the Directorate-General of the Civil Guard has been asked to forbid detainees entering their cells with water bottles- as was noticed in the Command Headquarters of Gijón (Asturias) and Guadalajara-, in order to 43

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