PNP says crime dipped 8% in the last 10 months

November 8, 2017

Crime incidents dipped slightly over the past ten months, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said Wednesday. Aside from the 8.44 percent drop in total crime volume from a high of 493,912 incidents in January-October 2016 down to only 452,204 incidents in the same period in 2017, the PNP also noted a 20.56 percent reduction in index crime cases during the same ten-month period as gleaned from the Crime Information Reporting and Analysis System  of the PNP Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management (DIDM). The nationwide total crime volume of 452,204 comprises of 94,565 index drime cases and 357,639 non-index crime cases. Index crimes involve crimes against persons such as murder, homicide, physical injury and rape, and crimes against property such as robbery, theft, carnapping and cattle rustling Non-index crimes are violations of special laws such as illegal logging. Notable decreases in crime volume were recorded in all regions except in Southern Luzon (Calabarzon) and northern Mindanao where slight increases in non-index crime were recorded. Across the country, all regions posted marked decline in Index Crime cases of murder, physical injury, robbery, theft, rape, carnapping and cattle rustling. Theft cases were most prevalent and made up 32.44 percent of all recorded index crime incidents; while physical injury comprised 28.44 percent and robbery at 14.75 percent of all index crime cases. Corresponding decreases were noted among murder, homicide and physical injury cases during the period. DMS