The crime rate in Caloocan City has gone down by 20 percent in the past three months, Mayor Oca Malapitan said Tuesday.
Citing a report from the city's chief of police, Col. Samuel Mina, Malapitan said that there were only 148 reported cases of eight focus crimes in the city from October 23, 2020 to January 15, 2021. The eight focus crimes are murder, homicide, physical injury, robbery, qualified theft, carnapping, motornapping, and rape.
The number is 20 percent lower than 187 cases reported during the same period last 2019, the mayor added.
Mina told Malapitan during a meeting on peace and order council Tuesday that Caloocan residents have now become more "well-educated," thus refraining themselves from doing crimes.
"During the enhanced community quarantine, the average number of arrested individuals was at 300 daily. But now, our highest was just at 80," Mina also told the mayor.