The Ipsos business poll indicates that 70 percent of Peruvians do not believe that the emergency declaration, which will be applied in four of the 42 districts of Lima and in the eight of the northern province of Sullana, will achieve greater results, and only 27 percent think so that the opposite is the case.
Nevertheless, Interior Minister Vicente Romero, who received sharp criticism from lawmakers of various positions dissatisfied with the official citizen security policy when questioned by the plenary session of Parliament last week, claimed that the state of emergency has reduced the number of crimes.
The publication of the survey coincided with the murder by hitmen of a 17-year-old soldier who was on his day off in civilian clothes in broad daylight in the district of San Martín de Porres, one of the remaining soldiers in the state of emergency.
However, according to the survey, 76 percent believe that President Dina Boluarte is not committed to fighting crime in Lima, the city with the highest crime rate in the country, and 18 percent believe she is.
The far-right mayor of Lima, Rafael López Aliaga, who supports extreme measures against crime such as the death penalty, is not committed to fighting crime, according to 56 percent of respondents, while 37 percent think the opposite.
On the other hand, 47 percent of those surveyed in the survey demanded efficiency from the judiciary, the public prosecutor’s office (29) and the state police (25).
Among the areas in which the police should improve, Ipsos respondents cited efficiency and speed of action (40%), honesty (38%), intelligence work (35%) and dealing with the public (3.4%) ). .
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