Cordillera crime rate dips in 2017
A RANKING official of the Police Regional Office – Cordillera noted a dip in crime rate of 35.45 percent in the region.
During the 1st Quarter Regional Peace and Order Council meeting held in Baguio City, PRO-COR operations officer Senior Superintendent Homer Penecilla reported a total of 8,368 crime volume were reported in 2017 compared to the 12,964 reported in 2016.
PRO-COR recorded a 58.47 percent decrease of index crime from the 3,990 cases in 2016 compared to the 1,669 cases in 2017, while the non-index crimes listed a 25.35 percent decrease or from 8,974 cases in 2016 to 6,699 last year.
Mountain Province listed the highest decrease at 55.46 or 467 cases in 2016 to 208 cases in 2017, followed by Baguio City with 46.21 percent, and Ifugao with 35.13 percent.
For index crimes, physical injury cases listed the highest number of occurrence with 556 cases or 33.31 percent followed by theft, robbery, rape, catnapping, murder, homicide and cattle rustling.
The crime efficiency and solution efficiency showed a marked improvement with a 30.43 percent increase in 2016 to an 80.05 percent increase last year or from 8,373 cases in 2016 to 6,699 in 2017, with the average crime rate at a
39.40 percent decrease which is lower than the 41.55 percent national crime rate.
The 2017 focus crime statistics recorded almost 50 percent decrease or from 236 cases in 2016 to 202 in 2017.
Murder was seen with a uniform trend having an average of five cases a month with the highest recorded at 10 cases in January of 2016 to two in September of 2017.
Homicide had six cases followed by physical injury with a 67 to a low of 25 cases last December.
At least 29 rape cases were recorded in March of 2017, seven in October, and 18 in January of this year.
Robbery averaged 18-20 cases a month with a high of two and a low of 11 while theft progressively decreased from 75 in 2016 to 25 in 2017.
Vehicular traffic accident have recorded a 51 percent share from the total of 8,368 total cases in 2017 with 4,279.
Leading cause of vehicular traffic accidents is due to driver’s error followed by mechanical defects, road conditions, and other causes. Cars had the highest involvement in traffic accidents with 1,828 followed by motorcycles with 881, vans with 581, trucks with 438, jeepneys at 381, trucks with 129, bus with 44, and pickups with four cases.