Medium-term Deprivation of Liberty 58. In relation to the injury reports which may be issued after a police operation, regarding both inmates and officers, during the visits undertaken to the CIEs in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia it was noticed that those issued to inmates were sent to the overseeing court or to the court that authorized the internment, while the reports issued to the police officers were sent to the Local Criminal Court on duty. For this reason, it was requested from the Directorate General of the Police that all reports be jointly sent to the latter, which has been accepted by such gov­ erning body. Injury reports must be sent 59. During the visits carried out in 2012 it has continued to be noticed that at the CIEs there is a cohabitation of foreign citizens who are going to be removed from the national territory, some of them coming from prison while others held there just for a mere irregular stay in our country. The latter has complained of this fact. In the specific case of Valencia it was reported that 86% of the persons held there until May 2012 had a criminal or police record, although no details were given on what part of that percentage corresponded only to those with a criminal record. It is necessary to point out that the Spanish Ministry of the Interior usu­ ally provides data disaggregated by “qualified” and “unqualified” expulsion, and it is impossible to obtain data on those foreigners that are held and have a crimi­ nal record, as opposed to those with a police record. Due to the above, it is neces­ sary to improve the quality of statistics in order to have a clear knowledge of the percentage of foreigners held and deported who have a criminal record, differen­ tiating them from those who only have a police record. It has continued to be 60. The lack of social assistance services referred to in paragraph 82 of the 2011 Annual Report, which was detected in all the CIEs except for the one in Madrid, is pending the new regulation for the organization and operation of CIEs which, according to a report from the Directorate General of the Police, shall provide for such possibility. Lack of social assistance 61. The lack of notification to inmates regarding the time they will be deported, already pointed out in paragraph 84 of the 2011 Annual Report, has been the sub­ ject of complaint at the visits undertaken to the CIEs in Madrid and Valencia. In the latter, the director reported that he had submitted this matter to the Central Department so that the criteria applicable to all centers may be unified. In that regard, this Institution has been pleased to learn of the Ruling of 30 March, from the Local Criminal Court no. 8 of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, acting as oversee­ ing court of the Barranco Seco CIE, where it stated that the communication to inmates regarding their expulsion or release from the CIE must be made with a minimum of 12 hours prior to its implementation, in line with the trend followed by other courts, amongst them those overseeing stays at the CIE of Madrid. The lack of notification 62. As regards the video-surveillance of these centers, which was referred to in paragraphs 261 of the 2010 Annual Report and 87 of the 2011 Annual Report, after the visit carried out to the CIE of Barcelona some cameras have been in­ stalled in a space intended for a library and in another space used for the tempo- The installation of cameras THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN to the Local Criminal Court on duty noticed that at CIEs there are foreigners coming from prison who coexist with others who are interned due to an illegal stay services regarding the time when they will be removed has been, again, a reason for complaint by inmates has been requested at those facilities which had none 71

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