Faro

Faro airport pre-removal facility (EECIT)

Portugal

Status

In use

2023

Type: Transit centre (Administrative)

Custodial Authority: Public Security Police (Polícia de Segurança Pública, PSP), SEF (Servicio De Estrangeiros e Fronteiras)

Management: ANA (Areoportos de Portugal) (Private For-Profit)

Detains: Adult men, Adult women, Families, Accompanied minors, Asylum seekers (administrative), Undocumented migrants (administrative)

Capacity Conditions complaints? Reported population
13
YES

2017

No Data
Portugal

533

Migration Detainee Entries

1,615

Apprehensions of Non-Citizens

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FACILITY NAMES
Faro airport pre-removal facility (EECIT)
Location

Country: Portugal

City & Region: Faro, Europe

Latitude, Longitude: 37.017536, -7.970653

MANAGEMENT & BUDGET

Center Status
Status
Year
In use
2023
Last documented use
2017
In use
2014
Facility type
Category
Type
Year
Administrative
Transit centre
2017
National typology
Official Typology
Year
Espaço Equiparado a Centro de Instalação Temporária (Detention facilities qualified as Temporary Installation Centres, EECIT)
2024
Temporary Accommodation Centre (Centro de instalação temporária ou espaço equiparado é autorizado)
2017
Management
Management
Type
Year
ANA (Areoportos de Portugal)
Private For-Profit
2017
SEF (Servicio De Estrangeiros e Fronteiras)
Governmental
2017
Custodial Authorities
Agency
Ministry
Ministry type
Year
Public Security Police (Polícia de Segurança Pública, PSP)
Ministry of Interior
Internal or Public Security
2023
SEF (Servicio De Estrangeiros e Fronteiras)
Interior or Home Affairs
2017
Outsourced services and non-state actors
Provider
Service
Year
Doctors of the World (Médicos do Mundo, MdM)
Health care
2024
[Unknown private security company]
Security
2017

DETAINEES

Demographics

Adult men

2017

Adult women

2017

Families

2017

Accompanied minors

2017
Categories of detainees

Asylum seekers (administrative)

2017

Undocumented migrants (administrative)

2017

SIZE & POPULATION

Capacity (specialised migration-related facility)

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 13

2024

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 13

2023
Total Migration Detainees: Entries + Remaining from Previous Year

Number 102

2016

Number 82

2015
Migration Detainee Entries

Number 15

2023

LENGTH OF DETENTION

Detention Timeframe (long, medium, short)

Length Long-term (more than 20 days)

2017
Average Days in Detention

Number of Days 10

2017

OUTCOMES

CONDITIONS

Overall Inspection Score

Deficient (“Deficient” or “At Risk”)

2017
Inadequate conditions
Inadequate Conditions
Obvs. Date
2017
2017
2017
2017

CARCERAL INDICATORS

External Security Regime

Secure

2017
Armed External Guards

Yes

2017

STAFF

SEGREGATION

Gender Segregation

Yes

2017
Age Segregation

Yes

2017
Family Segregation

No

2017

CELLS

COMMUNAL SPACE & ACTIVITIES

HEALTH

MONITORING & ACCESS

Monitors & Civil Society Access
Access?
Type of Institution
Obsv. Date
Yes
National ombudsman or human rights institution
2017
Consular Access

Yes

2017

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