Challenges and Deficiencies in Callao Police Stations Revealed: Lack of Patrol Plans and Crime Maps

2024-03-16 20:17:11

While Callao is bleeding with successive cases of hitmen and common crime, a large part of the police stations in the Buenos Aires region operate blindly: without patrol plans, crime maps, or access to immigration information and the background system.

From January to November of last year, 377 people were victims of firearm projectiles in Callao, according to information collected by the Regional Citizen Security Observatory of the Buenos Aires region. Of the total cited, 60 people died and 317 were injured. That is, every day one was hit by a firearm projectile (Photo: GEC)

El Comercio accessed six control visit reports carried out during the first days of February by the Institutional Control Body of the National Police of Peru and the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) in 16 of the 20 police stations in the region. These revealed that at least 14 of the 16 audited had their Sector Patrol Plan for the current year.

According to the CGR, this would affect the determination of patrol sectors, durations, the safety of police personnel and the distribution of resources necessary for their execution. Meanwhile, 8 of the 16 police stations did not organize their Integrated Patrol Plan either. These correspond to the districts of Carmen de la Legua Reynoso, La Perla, Bellavista, La Punta, Ventanilla and Mi Perú.

According to the CGR report, the Ciudad del Pescador PNP police station does not have access to the Immigration Information Registry (Photo: Joel Alonzo/GEC)

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Spokespersons for the Municipality of La Punta clarified that they “do have an integrated patrol plan” that has been carried out since February 1, however, according to the CGR report, until February 7, the La Punta police station Punta did not have an integrated patrol plan.

During the control applied to the Márquez and Sarita Colonia police stations in the Callao district, those in charge of statistics told the CGR that they did not have the Sector Patrol Plan for this year because the Callao Police Region had not yet sent it.

Control visits to police stations revealed various deficiencies such as lack of access to information systems, lack of patrol plans and lack of internet (Photo: Capture of CGR report on Callao police stations)

In addition to the lack of patrol plans, almost half a dozen police stations do not have access to basic information systems for crime control. According to information from the CGR, the police stations of Carmen de la Legua Reynoso, La Punta, La Perla and Ciudad del Pescador (Bellavista) do not have a way to enter the National Registry of Detainees and Sentences or the Immigration Information Registry.

The CGR also detailed that the PNP police station in Ciudad del Pescador also does not meet the categorization criteria regarding the area and minimum number of police officers.

The Oquendo police station, in Callao, does not have an Internet connection. The police center detailed that it connects to the network through data shared from personal cell phones, which would result in limited access to the Computer System for Recording Police Complaints (Sidpol), Reniec, among others, which in turn would have a negative effect on the provision of police services to citizens.

The document also detailed that the Oquendo police station does not have motorized vehicles and police equipment to carry out the motorized patrol service.

Meanwhile, the Mi Perú and La Punta police stations do not have a graphic and geo-referential map of protection measures, which puts the correct geolocation of the victims at risk. The CGR also highlighted that Oquendo and Playa Rímac, in addition to not having the map, also do not have a record of the victims with protection measures nor are they executing the orders to protect them.

Likewise, the police stations of Ciudad del Pescador, La Perla and Callao did not publicly disseminate their crime maps.

The report detailed that the PNP Callao police station had made its crime map but had not disseminated it publicly to citizens, which would put them at risk in places considered dangerous.

El Comercio requested an interview with the head of the Callao Police Region, PNP General Samuel Peralta Campos, to find out what actions were carried out since the issuance of the reports from the Comptroller General of the Republic, but this was denied due to his “heavy agenda.” ”.

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For former Minister of the Interior Rubén Vargas, the recurring reports generated by the Comptroller General of the Nation and the Ombudsman’s Office conclude that these police centers are “absolutely abandoned” in terms of management of resources, infrastructure and compliance with their objectives.

“Unfortunately, the police stations remained in a kind of backyard of the large units. The mistaken idea of ​​considering police service in police stations as a kind of punishment continues,” Vargas declared.

The expert highlighted that the police station and a patrol car are the most important units from which the image, trust and respect for the police is built; Unfortunately they are the most abandoned. Likewise, he specified that the faults detailed in the CGR reports would correspond to a lack of commitment on the part of the officer in charge and the lack of support from the institution towards the police stations.

“To reverse this situation, from a very unprofessional work of the officers who are in charge of the police stations, is that the service in these centers serves as an especially high score for those who want to advance and have a police career with objectives to reach General”, he recommended.

The former director of the National Police of Peru Eduardo Pérez Rocha indicated to this newspaper that the Integrated Patrol Plan should have been executed since January of this year. “At the beginning of 2024, according to article 69 of the regulations of the National Citizen Security System, the commissioners should have prepared the plan in coordination with the Citizen Security Manager for the entire year. […] The first thing that has to be done is the patrol plan, but rather how you are going to work. […] This is lack of control. The PNP Inspectorate should intervene and sanction,” he said.

The manager of Citizen Security of the Provincial Municipality of Callao, Miguel Ángel Palomino Cáceres, informed El Comerio that in December of last year the Provincial Action Plan for Citizen Security 2024-2027 of the Constitutional Province of Callao was approved and published. Said document contemplates the work that is carried out with the PNP, he indicated.

Likewise, he explained that the Provincial Municipality of Callao works directly with the commissioners of the jurisdiction. He highlighted that in the month of February they met to approve which are the critical areas of Callao where police presence is necessary.

“This patrol follows a roadmap that is formulated by the commissioner himself because he is the director of the security service in his area. The Provincial Action Plan, integrated into the Integrated Patrol, ensures that the joint work of the watchman with the police and the commissioner as the stage director, carry out the patrolling,” he declared.

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