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Crimes in the Philippines down by 21.8% in 2017
-Rowiz Briones
Gratified. PNP Chief Bato happily explains the decline of crime rates in the Philippines in 2017. -Rowiz Briones
The volume of crimes in the Philippines has dropped in 2017, data from the Philippine National Police (PNP) show.
According to numbers acquired by Rappler from the PNP's Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management (DIDM), there was a total of 100,668 index crimes recorded from January to November 2017.
It represents a 21.8% drop from the period in 2016, where they recorded 128,730 index crime incidents.
Because the counts vary as one crosses local government territories, the PNP does not use them as a gauge of public safety.
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