Policía Nacional del Perú

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The Policía Nacional del Perú (PNP) is the national police force of Peru . She is responsible for safety on land, in the air and at sea.

structure

In addition to the normal police service, there are a number of special units, including:

  • DIROES (Dirección de Operaciones Especiales, German: Directorate for special operations)
  • DIRANDRO (Dirección Antidrogas, German: Antidrogen Directorate)
  • DIRINCRI (Dirección de Investigación Criminal; German: Direktion der Kriminalpolizei)
  • DIRCOTE (Dirección Contra el Terrorismo, German: Direction Antiterror)

equipment

Police officers in Peru had to rely on their personal cell phones for a long time while on duty . Many patrols and numerous patrol vehicles did not have radios . In 2012, tap-proof digital devices were officially installed in some vehicles. A digital radio system, which had already been tested in La Punta in the far west of the Callao province , was to be gradually introduced across Peru from March 2013. The then Deputy Interior Minister Roberto Reynoso said that the Peruvian police would have the "best communication system in the region". Initially, 6,000 terminals were to be used, 4,000 of them for foot patrols, 1,700 for patrol cars and 300 for police stations. The whole country should be equipped with digital police radio by 2016. The system used can work with up to 18,000 end devices, including special receivers for fire brigades, ambulances and surveillance cameras. For a test phase, the surveillance cameras of the Metropolitano express bus system were first integrated in Lima . In addition to the voice, the new system will later access to the databases of the population register authority RENIEC allow (Registro Nacional de Identificación y Estado Civil), which also fingerprints are stored.

crime

According to the Foreign Office , the risk of falling victim to attacks, thefts or kidnappings in Peru is increased. The Peruvian government first admitted the existence of death squads within the police force in 2016 . The PNP has installed a digital video surveillance system around the Plaza de Armas in Cusco .

history

The PNP was created in 1988 from the amalgamation of the Criminal Police, the Security Police and the Republican Guard; it reports to the Peruvian Ministry of the Interior.

In the Peruvian public have long been rumors about an alleged gang of mass murderers , the so-called pishtacos rumored that many since the 1970s murders were attributed. However, it turned out to be an invention of police officers and the gang never existed. The officers tried to cover up vigilante justice and other crimes.

Web links

Commons : Policía Nacional del Perú  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Organización. Dirección de Comunicación e Imagen de la Policía Nacional del Perú (DIRCIMA - PNP), accessed June 26, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Peru's police switch to digital radio - infoamazonas.de
  3. ^ Peru: Travel and Safety Advice. In: www.auswaertiges-amt.de. Federal Foreign Office, June 14, 2019, accessed on June 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Peru acknowledges the existence of death squads, a report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine from 2016
  5. ^ Nosotros. Dirección de Comunicación e Imagen de la Policía Nacional del Perú (DIRCIMA - PNP), accessed June 26, 2019 (Spanish).
  6. ↑ «Body fat murders» overthrow police chief. In: 20min.ch. Tamedia AG, December 2, 2009, accessed June 26, 2019 .

Coordinates: 12 ° 5 '51.81 "  S , 77 ° 1' 0.19"  W.