Fewer crimes in 2011-PNP

THE PHILIPPINE National Police has announced yesterday that the crime rates dropped by 23 percent compared to last year’s record.

According to the report of PNP-National Crime Situation summary, 248,378 crimes were committed in 2011, 23.36 percent lower than 502,665 crimes in 2009 and 324,083 in 2010.

PNP spokesperson Chief Superintendent Agrimero Cruz Jr. credited the declining crime rate to its strict implementation of police integrated patrol system nationwide.

Cruz also cited that the presence of police supervisors in barangays “resulted in resolution of petty crimes and close cooperation of the public and local government units.”

He also noted that the use of new technology like the “E-blotter and E-warrants, of the PNP put more wanted persons behind bars”.

Records showed that the average monthly index crime rate has listed a decreasing trend: 27.52 in 2009, 18.10 in 2010, and 13.62 in 2011.

In 2011, the crime solution efficiency was 29.31 percent, the highest compared to the recorded 13.21 percent in 2009 and 18.90 percent in 2010, also considered as decreasing trend.

The number of crimes against person and crimes against property had both shown a decreasing trend.

There were 59,860 crimes against person in 2011, nearly a third of the 143,420 in 2009. There were 86,036 recorded crimes against person in 2010.

The recorded number of crimes against property was 97,671 in 2011, lower compared to the 158,283 recorded in 2009 and 118,943 in 2010.

Carjacking incidents meanwhile had shown little change in the January to December period of 2009 to 2011. There were 1,434 car thefts recorded in 2009, 1,440 in 2010, and 1,426 in 2011, according to the report. –RAFFY AYENG, Manila Times