Overview
- President Keiko Fujimori presented the Comando Unificado on Friday and said the joint force of police and military is now operational to coordinate intelligence‑led interventions against organized crime.
- The executive issued Decreto Supremo N.º 128‑2026‑PCM to place five high‑risk prisons under a 60‑day state of emergency, giving the Armed Forces perimeter control up to 200 meters and suspending certain local rights in those zones.
- INPE has intensified in‑prison operations with nocturnal requisas at Miguel Castro Castro and elsewhere and reclassified 71 inmates from Trujillo into a stricter closed regime to cut leaders’ access to phones and networks.
- El Milagro is operating a new access control center with body scanners, X‑ray baggage machines and security arches that began running about two weeks before the presidential inspection, and authorities are proposing three to four short‑term pavilions to relieve extreme overcrowding.
- Officials say success depends on sustained interagency coordination, reliable intelligence and faster judicial processing to convert arrests into sentences, while families and prison staff face stricter controls and a retooled rewards program is being relaunched to gain inmate cooperation.