Overview
- Effective immediately, 50% of PNP personnel in the capital will operate in civilian clothes while the other half remain in uniform for preventive duties.
- The tactic emulates the Terna undercover model to strengthen field intelligence, increase police presence, and enable faster responses.
- Operations will concentrate on critical areas of Lima where extortion gangs are active, with particular attention to public transport routes and companies.
- The announcement came after Interior Minister Vicente Tiburcio met in San Juan de Lurigancho with leaders of transport firm San Germán, days after a driver was shot on November 16.
- Tiburcio ruled out a curfew for now and said the government is refining its security posture under the state of emergency.