Iloilo City crime rate down 20.10% in 2017

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BY CAROLYN JANE ABELLO
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ILOILO City – This year’s crime rate dropped 20.10 percent from last year’s, according to the Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO).

From Jan. 1 to Dec. 25 the city police recorded 9,789 crimes. In 2016 within the same period, it recorded 12,252 crimes.

Index crimes dropped. As defined by the Philippine National Police, these involved crimes against persons such as murder, homicide, rape, and physical injury; and crimes against property such as theft, robbery and carnapping.

Crimes against persons reached 870 cases – 13.77 percent down from last year’s 1,009 cases.

These crimes were murder (16), homicide (12), physical injury (806), and rape (36).

Last year, the ICPO recorded 34 murder cases, eight homicide cases, 918 physical injury cases, and 49 rape cases.

For crimes against property this year, the ICPO recorded 637 – a 53.16 percent drop from last year’s 1,360 cases.

There were 60 robbery cases, 565 theft cases, 11 carjacking cases and cattle rustling cases.

Last year, there were 84 robbery cases, 1,237 theft cases, three carjacking cases, and 36 cattle rustling cases.

Non-index crimes dropped, too, by 25.43 percent (1,237 cases this year from 1,667 last year). These were violations of special laws or local ordinances. The ICPO recorded attempted abortions, adultery, acts of lasciviousness, sexual harassment, violence against women and children, child abuse, etc.

Even traffic-related incidents dropped – 5,883 cases from last year’s 6,279 cases or a drop of 6.31 percent.

“We can attribute the decrease in crimes to the aggressive campaign of our personnel, including maximized police visibility in places of convergence, and checkpoints,” according to ICPO operations chief Superintendent Joel Saliba.

The ICPO maintains six police stations in the districts of Arevalo, City Proper, Jaro, La Paz, Mandurriao, and Molo./PN
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