The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Friday commended the Philippine National Police (PNP) for recording a significant 62 percent decrease in crime rate during the first two years of President Marcos’ administration.
In a statement, DILG Secretary Jonvic Remulla said his agency only recorded a total of 83,059 crime incidents from July 1, 2022 to July 28, 2024, much lower compared to 217,830 crime incidents registered in the same period in 2016-2018.
“These significant feats are a testament to the unrelenting commitment of the PNP to continuously serve and protect the public from criminality and lawlessness.” he noted.
“With this positive development, the DILG urges the PNP to continuously fulfil their sworn duties as vanguards of peace and order towards a safe and peaceful Bagong Pilipinas,” Remulla added.
Furthermore, the PNP’s crime clearance efficiency rate and crime solution efficiency rate also registered notable increases at 27 percent and 10 percent, respectively.
On Monday, former President Rodrigo Duterte during a Senate Blue Ribbon subcommittee hearing on his administration’s controversial anti-drug campaign claimed the crime statistics had gone up again during the Marcos administration.
Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin quickly belied the former leader’s assertion, quoting recent PNP statistics showing that there has actually been a “widespread decline in crime across the board.”
Similarly, Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla firmly refuted Duterte’s claim that the end of the previous administration’s War on Drugs has allowed criminal elements to resurface.
He emphasized that “the peace and order situation in our country is not only stable but has also dramatically improved.”
