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Thursday, August 06, 2015

PNP NOTES FEWER CRIME INCIDENTS IN 2015




From the Website of PNP - Philippine National Police
links:  http://pnp.gov.ph/portal/index.php/press-news-releases/latest-news/2816-pnp-notes-fewer-crime-incidents-in-2015
 
 

PNP NOTES FEWER CRIME INCIDENTS IN 2015 

The Philippine National Police clarified published reports that purportedly indicate a hike in crime incidents over the first half of the year.

“In fact is, our own crime statistics showed a decrease in both index and non-index crime categories during the first six month of 2015,” PNP Spokesperson, Chief Superintendent Wilben M Mayor clarified.

Comparative crime statistics culled by the Research and Analysis Division of the Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management recorded a Total Crime Volume of 509,924 in January to June of 2015 as against the Total Crime Volume of 602,449 posted during the same 6-month period in 2014.

The Total Crime Volume recorded for both periods translate to a 15.36% decrease, Mayor explained.

He said the summation of all crime incidents where collated from three main sources comprising the following: police blotter, barangay blotter and reports from other law enforcement agencies (OLEA).

Citing the DIDM Crime Situation Report covering January to June 2015, Mayor said for the period January –June 2015, there were 509,924 crime incidents collated from PNP, barangay and OLEA blotters nationwide, of this figure, Metro Manila registered the highest crime incidents with 116,347. ARMM registered the least with 2,096 crime incidents.

The 206,386 Index Crime incidents recorded comprised 40.47% of the Total Crime Volume.
Physical Injury was the highest (50.70%) recorded Index Crime at 104,638 incidents followed by Theft with 61,064 incidents (29.59%); Robbery with 18,846 incidents (9.13%); Carnapping with 6,491 incidents (3.15%); Rape with 5,415 incidents (2.62%); Murder with 4,845 incidents (2.35%); Homicide with 4,371 incidents (2.12%); and Cattle-Rustling with 718 incidents (0.35%).

Mayor explained that generally, total crime incidents sourced from PNP blotters, barangay and other law enforcement agencies showed favorable decreases. To cite, both Index and Non-Index Crimes decreased brought about by the decrease in Crimes Against Person and Crimes Against Property By 12.31% and 27.53% respectively.

However, the same PNP report noted slight increases in Homicide, Rape, Carnapping and Violation of Special Laws by 6.87%, 8.28%, 2.97% and 3.04%, respectively. (PNP-PIO)


 



 
 

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