Overview
- Mayor Marlem Mogollón formally requested that Sullana be placed under a new state of emergency due to persistent sicariato and rising extortion.
- He called for a wholesale rotation of police in the province after the recent arrest of the El Obrero station commander and other officers on alleged ties to extortion networks.
- The council-backed package asks for changes in Piura police leadership, the assignment of intelligence and criminalistics specialists, and funding for a municipal citizen-security project.
- Local figures report more than 22 contract killings in 2025 affecting Sullana and nearby districts including Bellavista, Querecotillo and Marcavelica.
- Mogollón says units created for flagrante delicto cases lack dedicated prosecutors and that requests for organized-crime prosecutors have been denied by the national prosecutor’s office.