PH crime rate up by 46%


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Catching criminals remains a challenge.

“While the Philippine National Police (PNP) claimed a 60% decrease in crimes in Metro Manila, the number of crimes committed nationwide increased by about 46% during the first six months of the year as compared to the same period last year,” reports Cecille Suerte Felipe in The Philippine Star.

The report revealed that “885,445 crimes were reported from January to June, compared to 603,085 cases during the same period in 2014.”

Records from the PNP Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management (DIDM) showed that theft, car theft, physical injuries and rape were among the crimes that had a huge increase.

In fact, as the report indicated, “there were 352,321 index crimes for the first six months of the year, which is 37.3% more than the 256,592 cases reported in the same period last year.”

The report explained that “index crimes” include murder, homicide, rape, robbery, and theft. “Non-index” crimes include estafa, prostitution, kidnapping, and car theft.

It may be recalled that “the PNP had announced that crime rate in Metro Manila was reduced by 60% to 70% due to the systematic implementation of Oplan Lambat-Sibat, an anti-crime drive supervised by Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas II.”

As such, the PNP has announced a plan to implement Oplan Lambat-Sibat in Central Luzon and Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon).

The PNP also puts pressure on officials who head city and municipal police forces as well as station and precinct commanders to produce results in the fight against crime.

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