Police Background

Electronic Headquarters

Police history

• Rights of citizens

  • Article 18.4 of the Spanish Constitution recognizes the fundamental right to the protection of personal data. The purpose of this procedure is to publicize the mechanism, within the framework of the Ministry of the Interior, for the exercise of the rights that current legislation grants to citizens.

    The rights listed below are of a very personal and independent nature, so that the exercise of one is not a requirement for the exercise of the other, being regulated in Organic Law 7/2021, of 26 May, on the protection of personal data processed for the purposes of prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of criminal offences and execution of criminal sanctions.

    The exercise by the affected party of his rights will be free of charge.

    Procedures on the file "PERPOL"

    • Right of Access
    • Right of Suppression

• General procedure

  • The exercise of the rights of access and deletion of police records must be carried out by means of a request addressed to the person responsible for the file for the management of records of persons of police interest (PERPOL), which will contain:
    • Name and surname of the person concerned.
    • Identification of the electronic medium, or in its absence, the physical place in which you want the notification to be carried out (being able to provide email address to receive notice of the sending or making available the notification).
    • Facts, reasons and request in which the request is clearly established, with the contribution, where appropriate, of the documents accrediting the request it makes.
    • Place and date.
    • Signature of the applicant or accreditation of the authenticity of his will expressed by any means.
    • Organ, centre or administrative unit to which it is addressed.
    • In the event that the request does not meet the specified requirements, the correction of the same will be requested.

• Ways to exercise the rights

  • The application together with the documentation that must accompany it must be presented, within the scope of the National Police Department, at any National Police Station or through the means and forms established in article 16.4 of Law 39/2015, of 1 October, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations (electronic registration, post offices, diplomatic representations or consular offices of Spain abroad, assistance offices in matters of registration, any other that establish the provisions in force).

• Acting through a representative

  • The rights may be exercised through:
    • Legal representative, when the affected person is in a situation of incapacity or minority age that makes it impossible for him to exercise these rights personally, in which case the accreditation of such condition will be necessary.
    • Voluntary representative, expressly designated for the exercise of the right. In this case, the identity of the representative and the representation conferred by him must be clearly established.

• Communication with the applicant

  • It will be done through the Police Unit closest to the home indicated in the request for notification.