Overview
- INPE and GOES deployed about 1,000 agents in coordinated searches across 68 facilities, reporting 14 seized cellphones, three routers and 358 drug packets.
- A focused sweep in Sarita Colonia’s high‑risk Pavilion 6 uncovered drugs, improvised weapons, clandestine caches and even a shackle key, highlighting security gaps.
- An intelligence‑led operation in the Piura prison found marijuana, cocaine and several phones hidden in plumbing; two inmates accepted responsibility and were placed in isolation.
- INPE says 2,761 searches since July have confiscated 775 phones and 2,951 sharp weapons, underscoring persistent illicit flows inside overcrowded prisons.
- Official data show 23,213 extortion complaints from January to October but only 11 convictions, and Sinadef counted 41 homicides in Lima and Callao during the first 21 days of the emergency, fueling calls for third‑party screening, permanent prison intelligence units and data‑driven analysis.