More than a month has passed, exactly 34 days, since the Plenary Session of the Congress of the Republic approved delegating powers to the Executive Branch to legislate for 60 days on citizen security and the fight against organized crimeresponsible economic growth and institutional strengthening. And 24 days since the norm was promulgated and published in the bulletin of the official newspaper El Peruano.
To date, however, there is nothing but promises from the central government authorities, while crime continues to grow and shooting attacks against public transport units, extortion and contract killings are once again gaining strength in these first days of 2026.
President José Jerí reiterated today that the new national citizen security plan will be presented in the coming days, and added that “one, two days before or on the same day” he will announce the figures of the results obtained so far in the fight against insecurity. What he did say is that “there are important results” and assured that “the numbers have begun to decline.” How much? He didn’t say it.
A similar position was held days ago by the president of the Council of Ministers, Ernesto Álvarez, who assured that the new plan has been reviewed and would be completed this week.
He added that it will be a “serious and coherent” instrument with indicators that allow compliance to be monitored according to a pre-established schedule. “The ideal is that this plan be continued, perfected, and of course, adapted to the needs and resources of the new government,” he said this week.
The truth is that to date there is no plan. And there are no concrete figures regarding how much the state of emergency declared last October in Lima and Callao has had an impact on the control of citizen insecurity. The first balance offered by the president a week after the measure was applied was never given.
Meanwhile, data analyst Juan Carbajal reported that to date – which marks 90 days of José Jerí’s government -, according to data from the National Information System of Deaths (Sinadef), more than 500 homicides have been recorded and of them between 70% and 80% have been caused by a firearm projectile.
PERU: More than 500 homicides have been recorded, after 90 days of the current Government of José Jerí, according to official government data through SINADEF, and with records still to be updated. Between 70% and 80% have been caused by firearm projectiles (PAF).
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“The daily average of homicide records during the Government of José Jerí continues to be the highest than any previous Government since 2017,” he stated.
It should be noted at this point that the Sinadef figures do not make a distinction between cases that could have been caused by hitmen or extortion.
On what matters can the Executive legislate?
According to Law 32527 on the delegation of legislative powers to the Executive, there are 24 matters in security and the fight against organized crime on which the government of José Jerí can regulate.
Among them is the modification of the Penal Code in order to criminalize the illegal shared possession of firearms, in case of attempt to commit a crime, flagrancy, quasi-flagrancy and presumed flagrancy, as well as to increase the penalties applicable to the crime of resistance or disobedience to authority.
Likewise, it is planned to authorize the review of computer equipment in flagrante delicto for the crimes of extortion, hitmen and kidnapping, as well as those detected inside penitentiary establishments, and regulate the immediate procedure for unsealing, extraction and analysis of samples of mobile terminal equipment seized in flagrante delicto for the aforementioned crimes.
It is also contemplated to incorporate the crime of illegal supply of telecommunications services in penitentiary establishments and youth centers, establish an automatic classification system for inmates convicted of crimes of high social harm, restrict the application of penitentiary benefits for those convicted of crimes of special gravity and establish judicial control over the granting of the benefit of redemption of sentence for education and work with respect to its application for discharge due to completion of the sentence, among others.
Valdés: “The Government does not know how to solve the problem”
On the subject, former Minister of the Interior Óscar Valdés commented that the delay would show that the government “does not know how to solve the problem.”
“Asking for powers does not mean that once they are granted you already have the solution to the problem, for that you have to surround yourself with people who know the subject and, above all, make a change in the National Police, which is very worn out, has many fronts to fight in terms of corruption and is not able to propose effective solutions because the police itself is corroded by this scourge,” he declared to Perú21.
Along these lines, he proposed the creation of new organizations, different from the National Police, that are in charge of the frontal fight against hitmen, extortion, and against organized crime, which can attack drug trafficking and also illegal mining “which is growing exponentially.”
He stated that there are measures that can be adopted immediately and effectively. “We have to go back to the simplest, and the simplest is with what is available,” he said.
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