Total crimes down 32.28% in Bohol

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, May 24 (PIA) -- Total crimes in Bohol in the first four months of 2021 decreased to about a thousand cases, compared to the same period of 2020 based on Bohol Provincial Police Office (BPPO) records.

According to BPPO Operations Officer Major Norman Nuez during the recent online Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) meeting, total crimes from January to April 2020 reached 3,008, a drop of 32.28% when the first four months of 2021 tallied 2,037 cases only.

Nuez reported in behalf of new BPPO Chief Police Senior Supt. Osmundo Salibo, who was also on his first PPOC appearance after taking over the command flag in Bohol last month.

Of the 2,037 total crime cases in 2021, 1,200 of these were peace and order incidents, which is 40.6 percent compared to the 2,023 peace and order incidents in 2020.

The remaining 837 of the 2,037 total crimes in 2021 were public safety incidents.

From the 985 public safety incidents in 2020, the cases went down to 837, or some 15.03 percent less.

For peace and order incidents, the 489 total index crimes in the first four months of 2020 dropped to 218 in the same period this year, with Bohol police recording a 55.42 percent downtrend.

Moreover, with 1,534 total non-index crimes in 2020, the figure sagged to 982, the difference of 552 comprises the 35.98 percent decrease.

In the breakdown of the Philippine National Police’s eight crimes in focus, Camp Dagohoy notes a decrease of seven of the eight crimes in focus, except for murder which registered an 11 percent increase, or from 18 cases in the first four months of 2020 to 20 cases this year.

Of these crimes, theft and robbery, which are top concerns for tourism and investment provinces like Bohol, authorities tallied a 64 percent decrease for both; rape at 50 percent decrease; physical injuries at 43 percent; homicide at 71 percent; motor-napping at 82 percent; and carnapping at 100 percent decrease.

As to the non-index crimes, the same decrease is recorded in 48.54 percent of the other non-index crimes in 2020 at 151 to 265 in 2021.

For the rest, which are of basically special laws, from 1,919, crimes, it dipped to 717 for a 24.64 percent downtrend. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)

FIGURES DON'T LIE. Crimes went down as Bohol enters into the second year of the pandemic and stay-at-home policies are still implemented. (PIA Bohol)