The Philippine National Police (PNP) has noted a significant decrease in eight focus crimes during the 84-day quarantine period compared to the 84-day period before the strict implementation of the community quarantine.
The eight focus crimes are murder, homicide, physical injury, rape, robbery, theft, carnapping of motor vehicles, and carnapping of motorcycles.
From 13,004 cases during the December 24-March 16 period, Gamboa said it went down to 7,352 cases during the March 17-June 8 period. Quoting reports from the Joint Task Force COVID Shield headed by Lt. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, Gamboa said carnapping registered the most number of decrease with 82 percent on carnapping of motor vehicles, and 81 percent on carnapping of motorcycles.
There was a decrease of 37 percent in murder case, or from 1,486 to 932, while 30 percent in homicide cases, or from 359 to 252. For physical injury cases, a 38 percent decrease was recorded, or from 2,171 to 1,348.Eleazar said that in Luzon, the 8-focus crime rate went down by 61 percent, or from 6,922 cases to 2,720 incidents, recorded during the same period.
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