The eight focus crimes dropped by 28.6 percent in the first 30 days of 2024, which the Philippine National Police (PNP) said is its motivation to work further for peace and order for the rest of the year.

PNP spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo said that from 3,223 from Ja. 1-30 in 2023, the eight focus crimes dipped to 2,301 in the same period this year.

The eight focus crimes are murder, homicide, physical injury, rape, theft, robbery, carnapping of vehicles and carnapping of motorcycles.

“With the help of our kababayan, we are confident of sustaining the decline. This figure serves as a motivation to our police officers to work further in enforcing the law and implementing legal orders,” said Fajardo.

Amid the gains in decreasing the crime volume, Fajardo also clarified that there is no brewing destabilization plot in the PNP.

Talks of destabilization plot was sparked anew by the political bickering of two influential political groups.

She said the PNP is still focused on its peace and order mandate.

“There is no destabilization, there is no coup d’etat. Whatever news and political issues we hear, it will not affect the PNP and our Chief PNP (Gen. Benjamin Acorda, Jr.) has been always reminding our police officers that we should not listen to those we hear about political noises,” said Fajardo.