BACOLOD City – The crime clearance and crime solution efficiency rates of the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) increased this June.
BCPO data showed that the crime clearance rate went up 5.27 percent – from 73.52 percent in June last year to 78.79 percent in June this year.
The crime solution rate, meanwhile, increased 4.05 percent – from 70.4 percent to 74.46 percent, the BCPO data added.
Crime clearance rate is the percentage of cleared cases out of the total number of crime incidents handled by law enforcement agencies for a given period of time, according to the Philippine National Police.
A case can be considered “cleared” when at least one of the offenders has been identified, there is sufficient evidence to charge the offender and the offender has been charged before the Prosecutor’s Office or any court of appropriate jurisdiction.
Crime solution rate, on the other hand, is the percentage of solved cases out of the total number of crime incidents handled by law enforcement agencies for a given period of time.
Solved cases are like cleared cases except that the offender must be taken under the custody of law enforcement agencies.
The total number of crimes in Bacolod decreased 28.04 percent, from 321 cases in June last year to 231 cases in the same month this year.
The incidence of the index crimes – murder, homicide, physical injuries, rape, robbery, theft, car theft, and motorcycle theft – dropped 31.33 percent this June, from 83 last year to 57 this year.
Non-index crimes, which are violations of special laws, also declined 26.89 percent this month, from 238 cases in 2017 to 174 in 2018.
The BCPO staged 97 operations this June, higher than 57 in the same month last year.
BCPO head Senior Superintendent Francisco Ebreo said their crime clearance and crime solution rates are higher than the target set by the Police Regional Office 6 – at 68.74 percent and 66.19 percent, respectively. (With a report from PNA/PN)
