PNP: Crime rate declines by 14.34% in first 9 months of 2025

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) reported a 14.34-percent decrease in crime rate across the country for the first nine months of 2025.

 In a press briefing in Camp Crame on Monday, PNP public information chief Brig. Gen. Randulf Tuaño said the national police force recorded 27,306 focus crime incidents from Jan. 1 to Oct. 9, 2025.

This was 4,572 incidents less than the 31,878 focus crime incidents recorded during the same period in 2024, according to Tuaño.

Focus crimes include murder, homicide, physical injury, rape, robbery, theft, and carjacking of motor vehicles and motorcycles.

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The PNP public information chief particularly highlighted that rape incidents dropped by 22.52 percent from 7,623 incidents during the said period in 2024 to 5,906 incidents during the same period in 2025.

Tuaño also touted that cases of murder dropped by 17.35 percent from 3,217 cases in the first nine months of 2024  to 2,659 cases over the same period in 2025.

Further, he maintained that physical injury incidents similarly decreased by 16.42 percent from 4,312 cases from January to October  2024; to 3,604 cases over the same period this year.

At the flag-raising ceremony in Camp Crame earlier on Monday, acting PNP chief Lt. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. further touted that at least 337 cases against erring police officers were resolved by the agency between Aug. 26 and Oct. 10.

Nartatez, however, did not expound on the nature of these cases. (with reports from Jossa Rafoncel Par, INQUIRER.net intern) /gsg /das