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This research addresses the question of how suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policies have been defined in Spain in the last decade. Therefore, the current state of their development in the architecture of the autonomic State is evaluated. Using the World Health Organisation’s indicators as main framework, this text assesses the design of these policies from the deliberative approach of public policy analysis. Through an evaluation matrix of twelve indicators, this applied analysis checks the current degree of correspondence with these control measures, developed from the Mental Health Plans of the Autonomous Communities. The results of this evaluation reveal not only the notorious differences between regions, but also relevant shortcomings in the formal design of suicide control policies in Spain in accordance to international standards. These inaccuracies also reveal a lack of precision in the identification of national benchmarks in the design of such policies, despite formal improvements in their designs due to the COVID-19 crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]