Overview
- Foreign experts will review government-provided data and deliver recommendations to the Interior Ministry on the plan now being drafted.
- The strategy will incorporate tools from the 2013–2018 National Citizen Security Plan alongside practices used in countries reporting positive results.
- President José Jerí identified prisons and border control as central problems and said the approach will combine preventive and reactive measures.
- Jerí defended recent prison actions, citing inmate reordering, restricted visits, and electronic blackouts to disrupt crime planned from inside facilities.
- He welcomed INPE chief Iván Paredes Yataco’s offer to take a polygraph as an oversight step, while a former intelligence director cautioned that success also requires police and justice reforms and noted regional struggles with Bratton-style efforts.