Overview
- The government, which published security decrees on Thursday and rain-related decrees on Friday, set 60-day extensions that cover crime hot spots in the Vraem and Piura and 581 districts facing severe rains.
- The security measures keep the National Police in charge of internal order with Armed Forces support based on intelligence, crime maps and indicators to target drug trafficking, contract killings, armed robbery and related offenses.
- Four climate decrees split duties between prevention and recovery, with 298 districts under preventive status from May 10 and 92 more from May 12, plus extensions for damage response in 107 and 84 districts starting May 12.
- Regional and local governments will coordinate with the national disaster agency INDECI and ministries such as Health, Education, Transport, Housing and Agriculture to fund quick repairs, restore services and reduce very high risk.
- The emergency framework allows temporary limits on transit, assembly, home inviolability and personal security under the Constitution, and local reports in Piura note doubts about results, pressing for longer-term policing, justice and social programs.