Overview
- INPE and its Special Operations Group carried out simultaneous searches in 68 prisons with roughly 1,000 officers deployed.
- The national sweep yielded 14 mobile phones, three repeater routers and 358 small drug packets, highlighting the modest interdiction results.
- A surprise entry into Sarita Colonia’s pavilion 6 uncovered drugs, improvised weapons, a handcuff key, cash and multiple hidden contraband caches.
- An intelligence-led inspection in the Piura prison found marijuana, cocaine paste and several phones concealed in bathroom ducts, with two inmates admitting responsibility and placed in isolation.
- At Huaraz, security staff blocked drugs hidden in double-bottom paint cans and alerted prosecutors and anti-drug police, as analysts argue sustained tech-enabled intelligence and judicial capacity are needed to disrupt prison-based crime.