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Peru Updates LimaCallao Emergency With Unified Command, Tougher Prison Controls and Expanded Surveillance

A unified command now directs the emergency response in Lima and Callao.

Overview

  • The government issued Supreme Decree No. 127-2025-PCM to modify the ongoing emergency, creating a unified Comando de Coordinación Operativa Unificada and putting security bodies in permanent session with 24/7 coordination centers and reserved operational information.
  • Penitentiary measures include limited visiting (weekly or biweekly), a power cutoff in cells, destruction of illicit antennas, ongoing seizures of SIM cards and phones, and immediate transfers of high-risk inmates, with police and military overseeing access and supporting INPE.
  • Urban operations expand to identity checks in public spaces and properties with descerraje when required, a ban on two adults on linear motorcycles, tighter vehicle interventions, and mass seizures of illegal weapons and pyrotechnics with SUCAMEC participation.
  • Intelligence and surveillance will be led by DINI using drones, satellite imagery from CONIDA, and an integrated video platform with facial recognition, while the National Intelligence System applies polygraph tests to INPE staff.
  • Market controls target informal SIM sales as OSIPTEL suspends preactivated lines and numbers tied to extortion, kidnapping or contract killings, and regional officials in La Libertad asked that the new measures be extended to Trujillo.