Overview
- PNP commander Óscar Arriola, speaking Tuesday on RPP, said he will stop announcing crime figures and told people to seek “official” numbers.
- He said the police keep internal statistics but declined to release them and did not identify who “feels bad” when he shares the data.
- He offered no link or platform for up-to-date reports, leaving reporters and citizens unsure where to find current figures.
- He insisted the force runs daily nationwide operations and cited arrests in cases of extortion, homicide, and contract killings.
- Jornada noted his earlier clash with the Sinadef death registry, and data experts say figures come from the Sidpol complaint system to the national observatory with monthly updates, weeks of delay, and no open dataset.