MANILA — Official incidents for eight crimes in the national capital for the week has decreased year-on-year, the Philippine National Police’s National Capital Region Police Office (PNP-NCRPO) reported Friday.
In a statement, NCRPO Director Camilo Cascolan said the average weekly crime rate under the eight focused crimes in Metro Manila has declined based on data monitoring recorded on May 14-20, compared to the same dates last year.
The offenses under the statistics are murder, homicide, physical injuries, rape, robbery, theft, car theft, and motorcycle theft.
The May 14-20 period is the lowest average weekly crime rate since the start of the Duterte administration.
Based on the Weekly Average Crime Trend monitoring conducted by the NCRPO Regional Investigation and Detective Management Division, the Weekly Average Crime Rate of the eight focus crimes has decreased by 29.29 percent from 329 last year to 231 recorded incidents this year.
The NCRPO said the week year-on-year has seen murder and homicide decrease from 34 to 33 incidents, physical injury decline from 85 to 38 incidents, rape lower from 21 to 15, robbery down from 63 to 41, theft decrease from 103 to 95, car theft reduce from four to one, and motorcycle theft decrease from 19 to nine incidents.
“The NCRPO will continue its efforts in fulfilling our commitment to the Chief PNP, PDG Oscar D. Albayalde and to everyone, in making Metro Manila a safer place,” Cascolan said.
Albayalde earlier said an oversight committee will continue to regularly check on the progress of local commanders throughout the country to make sure they are reaching the organization’s target goals.(Benjamin Pulta/PNA)
