Overview
- PNP commander Óscar Arriola said first-month operations in Lima and Callao delivered “enormous” results under the state of emergency.
- He urged officers to apply a tough approach and stressed that using lethal force to stop an armed threat is a matter of following the law, not an arbitrary order.
- Arriola warned that police may act against people who display real or replica firearms because such displays create public fear under the legal standard he cited.
- He accused human-rights groups and NGOs of undermining police morale and said the force faces a personnel shortfall as extortion notes continue to surface.
- Reporting arrests and major seizures, he cited 130,000 dynamite cartridges and 150 tons of pyrotechnics, and said the PNP coordinates with the foreign ministry on asylum or refuge cases, referencing the Betssy Chávez capture order.