While Peru continues to be a victim of criminals and extortionists, the Home Office has only spent 19.9% of the more than S/937 million budget for investment projects, according to the Friendly Consultation portal of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF).
The most worrying thing is that this portfolio, in charge of security, internal order and supervision of the National Police of Peru (PNP), has projects in which, at least this year, it does not register any progress in spending.
For example, it has S/211 million for the improvement of the civil unrest control service at the national level and has not spent even S/1 in 2025. The same happens with the more than S/30 million for the acquisition of a truck, motorcycle in basic police stations of Metropolitan Lima where it has S/30.9 million, but zero execution.
The list of projects also includes the “acquisition of laboratory equipment and integrated ballistic identification system – IBIS, in the functional criminalistics unit of the Criminalistics Directorate PNP district of Lima” with S/14.6 million and not a single sol disbursed this year.
For Lambayeque, the Ministry of the Interior has the initiative “improvement of the specialized police investigation units of the PNP region” of that region, within the framework of the implementation process of the new Criminal Procedural Code. Here the budget is more than S/12.8 million, but only S/32,527 has been spent.
Also on the list is the acquisition of bulletproof vests in the Lima and Callao police stations for which it was planned to allocate more than S/8.9 million and to date no disbursement has been recorded.
Nor has a single sun been allocated to the “acquisition of analysis and coordination software at the Divindat – Dirincri – PNP level (forensic telephony solution)” for which a budget of S/11.3 million was approved.
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