Lucia Nunovero, a PUCP citizen security specialist, said the Metropolitan of Lima is experiencing an increase in criminal activities affecting the population on a monthly basis. In an interview program Everything is known RPP Noticias provided some numbers on this issue.
“From 2021 to 2022, we are seeing monthly exponential growth that is happening nationally. There are areas where the problem is more severe, but we went from 19% self-reported victimization to 25% with a bias that something stated that people remember a criminal act in the past six months, this is still a very strong marker, first order level severity ,” Nunievero said.
On the other hand, the specialist also pointed to an increase use of firearms criminals, being North Lima main crime scene.
“What has always increased is the use of guns in robberies that people have reported as victims. We used to have less than 10%, and now we are at 16% in metropolitan Lima, in Northern Lima it reaches 24%, in Callao it is 20%. for a long time. In South Lima, they already present specific pockets where the criminal is not afraid to use weapons with deadly intent, ”he said.
Factors behind this increase in criminalization are the post-pandemic revival as well as the “deinstitutionalization” of the police. “It hit hard and unfortunately comes from the last two governments,” he said.
On the National Police He claimed that he had good results compared to other similar institutions in the region. However, he lamented the lack of leadership in key positions within the PNP to deal with serious issues such as criminal organizations.
Seven thousand mobile phones are lost or stolen every day in Peru.
Telecommunications Private Investment Supervisory Authority (Osiptel) It is reported that seven thousand mobile phones are stolen or lost every day in Peru. Nicolas Zevallos, former Deputy Minister of Public Security of the Ministry of the Interior, announced this on Tuesday. News RPP.
“According to data provided by Osiptel, which is public data, about seven thousand cell phones are lost or stolen every day in Peru, so this is a gigantic figure,” the former official said.
Zevallos He argued that the issue of the theft of cell phones should be put at the forefront of the struggle, since the theft of this technology risks the life of a person who resists the “loss of means of labor.”
Former official says there is no ‘reasonable explanation’ for government failure to prevent sale Cell Phones stolen from galleries and malls.
Source: RPP
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