Overview
- Interior Minister Vicente Tiburcio announced the Executive will approve a Supreme Decree with tougher penalties to expel officers discovered in flagrancia and place them under summary disciplinary proceedings.
- Tiburcio said a discipline office in Lima is operating to process rapid cases and asserted that officers with corroborated illicit acts will be removed immediately.
- Between January and August 2025, the National Police detained 993 officers for alleged crimes, and 532 were definitively retired following disciplinary processes, according to the PNP inspector general.
- Former security oversight official Carlos Tuse described the current approach as preventive suspension and reassignment during months-long proceedings, citing more than 40,000 disciplinary files.
- The minister coupled the disciplinary push with a plan to bolster prevention, investigation and intelligence using crime-mapping and a unified platform during a visit to Junín that included the Huancayo prison.