Annual Report 2012: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism A record is kept of what happens in the rooms to control narcotics There are about 1,400 admissions per year A specific information protocol regarding prophylactic measures should be adopted Deficient video surveillance system Agents must be identified when they are in the Prison Hospital Wards A terminally ill prisoner tried to commit suicide 154 215. When persons carrying pellets of narcotics in their bodies are admitted to the rooms for the control of narcotics, expulsion of the drugs is controlled and recorded on a sheet that includes, amongst other information, the name, sur­ names and court handling the corresponding proceedings. 216. On the day of the inspection visit 15 patients were hospitalized, of which 7 voluntarily accepted to have a confidential interview. They all declared that they had been properly treated by the healthcare personnel and by the police agents in charge of their custody. In the Record of Admissions, opened at the page for the 5th of October 2012, it was noted that from that date up to the 18th of December 2012, 273 persons had been admitted to the Prison Hospital Ward. According to information provided by the physician in charge of coordinating penitentiary healthcare, there were 1,400 admissions every year, with inmates being distrib­ uted to different rooms in accordance with medical instructions. 217. The police agents that were interviewed declared that they did not know of the existence of a specific information protocol regarding prophylactic measures for agents in charge of the custody and transfer of prisoners. In consequence, an information protocol of this sort should be adopted. 218. The video surveillance system is a color system, and only permits viewing, but not recording. The cameras cover the entrance door to the Prison Hospital Ward and the exterior side of the windows. Like the other Prison Hospital Wards inspected, it does not comply with features considered necessary, in accordance with the criteria expressed in 477 of the 2010 Annual Report and 209 of the 2011 Annual Report. 219. It was noted that the police agents in charge of the custody in these facilities were dressed as ordinary citizens and were not wearing an identification badge or regulation weapon, which they left in a locker. The explanation given to inspec­ tors, which seemed reasonable, was that agents wore plainclothes for purposes of discretion when hospitalized prisoners had to be transferred to other parts of the hospital for medical tests. However, in accordance with Instruction 13/2007 of the Office of the Secretary of State for Security and the criterion stated in para­ graphs 66 and 113 of the 2010 Annual Report and 52 of the 2011 Annual Report, it would be advisable that agents wear at least their identification when they are in the Prison Hospital Ward. 220. Inspectors were informed that in the last two years one accusation had been filed for alleged mistreatment in said unit, and that it had been filed away. Moreover, the inspection team was told that there had been a case of self-inflicted injuries at that Prison Hospital Ward and that a prisoner who had been diag­ nosed a tumor and was in the terminal phase tried to commit suicide, although the hospital staff realized what was happening on time and impeded the suicide. THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN