“We are going backwards in the fight against crime because of the constant changes in the PPP,” says the former deputy interior minister.

Ricardo Valdesformer Deputy Minister of the Interior, in dialogue with RPP Newspointed out that the constant changes in the ministry and in particular in the National Police of Peru (PNP) had a negative impact on the fight against crime., which, he says, has increased over the past year.

“Obviously, we are going backwards because of the complexities of the political order, because of the constant changes in commanders in chief, because of the change in the interior minister,” he explained.

According to Valdez, “citizen insecurity has basically risen over the past year, almost 25% more than in July last year”; that is, “more or less another one and a half million people were victims of some kind of crime.”

“Political chaos and institutional chaos is obviously giving rise to this situation because cities with more than 20,000 people in the country, which are the cities with the most casualties, are not getting there effectively,” he noted.

“More than 4,000 cell phones are stolen every day”

The former Vice Minister believes that cell phone theft is an example of this increase in insecurity, which he pointed out is not being effectively tackled.

“According to Osiptel, 4,300 cell phones are stolen every day. Osiptel registered about 400,000 stolen cell phones in the first quarter of this year,” he said.

Valdez believed that police action on this issue should include 3 actions.

“The first is territorial control by the Police in coordination with the mayor of each district, which involves complex actions between municipal facilities and PNP, because there are serious problems with infrastructure. Second, intervention is needed in areas where stolen cell phones are being sold,” he said.

In this sense, he argued that the crime is committed by “both those who sell and those who buy” stolen cell phones, since the “crime of receipt” is committed by the buyer”, and for both it is the same punishment of 6 years jail time.”

“And thirdly, educate the public to be more vigilant about using mobile phones and not walk the streets talking freely because that exposes themselves to outbreaks and increases the illegal market.” he said.

Fight against drug trafficking

Regarding the fight against drug trafficking, Valdes believes that government policies have contributed to the increase in crimes associated with this criminal scourge.

“What is undoubtedly growing is the freedom policy that has been given to the coca growers so that they can grow coca of their own free will,” he said.

In this regard, the former vice minister warned that “the acreage of coca has not been eradicated”, approximately “88 thousand hectares”, so that the surplus “goes to 92% for drug trafficking.”

“Then it gives rise to a number of other inconveniences, as the crime associated with drug trafficking is growing,” he said.

This crime, he explained, can also be reflected in the large number of illegal weapons that circulate on the black market and are available to criminals.

“We have an illegal firearms market that is growing. It is related to a different kind of crime, namely smuggling and illegal weapons entering our border, which in turn is related to various crimes such as illegal mining, extortion, etc. more and more armed people” , – he said.

“There is a growing illegal market and that is also reflected in the types of attacks, the types of attacks that happen every day. The victimization rate has risen from more or less 7% to almost 18%. which increased the violence,” he added.

Similarly, Valdez believed that the PNP currently “does not have the resources or technical capability”, which is forced to use failed research equipment “such as fingerprint IDs” or “ballistic systems”.

“There are investments that, unfortunately, have not yet been completed, which hinders the investigation,” he stressed.

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