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Peru to Bring In Foreign Security Specialists Next Week for New Citizen Security Plan

Officials cast the Bratton model as one input within a broader strategy grounded in prior national planning, comparative evidence.

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.