Overview
- The law, published as Nº 32527 in El Peruano, authorizes up to 48 decrees across three tracks: 24 on citizen security and crime, 17 on economic growth, and 7 on institutional strengthening.
- Security powers include Penal Code changes to criminalize shared illegal firearm possession, increase penalties for resistance or disobedience to authority, and tighten the legal framework against illegal mining.
- The plan enables creation of a Specialized Subsystem against Extortion and Related Crimes (SEEDC) targeting extortion, contract killings, kidnapping, and crimes affecting public and cargo transport.
- Migration and data measures include reforms to the Refugee Law with mandatory biometric capture of applicants, new penalties for leaking reserved information from investigations, and updates to the Computer Crimes Law to criminalize trafficking in illicitly obtained data and databases.
- Economic and institutional reforms span changes to APP rules under Law 32441, customs valuation controls with options to replace certain seizures with fines, new consumer protections for e-commerce, and the creation of superintendencies including SUNIR and a Public Defense and Access to Justice body.