Overview
- Flagrant déni reports that roughly 90% of criminal investigations involving police are conducted by local units under departmental police directors rather than the national inspectorate.
- The NGO links this structure to declining effectiveness, noting a near 60% rise in cases involving public authority since 2016 and a 25% drop in clearance rates through 2024.
- The DGPN disputes the NGO’s framing, stressing that the IGPN handles the most serious and sensitive cases and reports a 95% to 100% clearance rate for those matters.
- Police leadership acknowledges staffing pressures, citing about 20% investigator vacancies as of September 2025, while emphasizing that local probes are directed by judicial magistrates.
- Victims and several lawmakers press for a parliamentary commission and the creation of an investigative body independent of the Interior Ministry, arguing current local mechanisms are opaque and risk conflicts of interest.