Overview
- The government declared a 60-day state of emergency and on Tuesday deployed the Armed Forces to five prisons — Challapalca, Cochamarca, Castro Castro, Ancón I and Trujillo Varones — to establish 200‑metre intervention zones around each facility.
- Military units set up metal detectors, X-ray and millimeter‑wave scanners, sent personnel contingents and announced plans to cut cellphone signals and intervene houses with nearby antennas to block contraband and illicit communications.
- The Armed Forces are conducting joint operations with the National Police to prevent escapes, attacks on prison staff and the entry of prohibited items.
- The PNP named General Fredy López Mendoza as the new Commander General, and retired officers urged him to focus on institutional management, recruitment, training, equipment and internal control rather than frontline operations.
- Security experts say perimeter control is a necessary short-term step but warn long-term success depends on inmate classification, decongestion, finishing stalled prison construction, stronger internal policing and resocialization programs.