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Policing in Brief-Spain: Policeman who sexually abused detainees jailed:

01 March 2003

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The Supreme Court confirmed a ruling by Palma de Mallorca court sentencing police officer Jaime Ramis Hidalgo to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing female detainees in the cells of a police station, and while patrolling the streets. The ruling found that five instances of sexual abuse had been proven, during which Ramis Hidalgo took advantage of his position monitoring police cells in the national police headquarters in Palma. One inmate was twice led away from her cell (in March and May 1999) to a hidden toilet area to be abused and was again abused, when Ramis Hidalgo spotted her while on patrol. Another detainee was sexually abused "no less than four times" in the toilet area and "once...in the cell itself". Others were embraced and kissed by the officer during their detention in the police station. El País 11.3.03.

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