Crimesin CL down 36%

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO - With the continuous implementation of enhanced police operations and the resumption of Project “Double Barrel,” the Police Regional Office III (PRO-3) noted a 36 percent decrease in crime incidents in Central Luzon.

PRO-3 Regional Director Chief Superintendent Amador Corpus disclosed that the regional police recorded 1,342 crimes from January 1 to March 18 of this year which is 761 cases lower from the total 2,103 crimes recorded in the same period last year.

Corpus added that significant decrease on this year’s crime incidence were noted on eight focused crimes namely murder, homicide, robbery, theft, physical injury, motornapping and rape.

While the region’s crime incidence was down, Corpus revealed that PRO-3’s crime clearance efficiency and crime solution efficiency simultaneously increased by 70.86 percent and 48.36 percent, r esp ect i vel y.

He noted that the police provincial office (PPO) with the highest percentage of decrease in crime incidents are Bataan PPO (48.21 percent), Nueva Ecija PPO (43.31 p er cen t ) , Olongapo City Police Office (42.19 percent), Angeles City Police Office (39.90 percent), Pampanga PPO (37.02 percent), Tarlac PPO (35.93 p er cen t ) , Bulacan PPO (30.57 percent) and Zambales PPO (22.22%), respect i vel y.

“This significant decrease in focus and prevalent crimes can be attributed to the intensification of our anticriminality measures particularly on motorcycle riding suspects and our resumed antidrug campaign and the community’s support and involvement in our crime prevention and control efforts,” Corpus sai d.