Security & Strategic Review - June 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)

PERU | Insecurity ‘misperceived’. Interior minister Walter Albán issued a plea on 16 June for the public not to exaggerate the current degree of insecurity in Peru. In statements to the official newspaper El Peruano he noted that while opinion surveys showed up to 88% of the public naming insecurity as their main concern, victimisation surveys by Inei, the national statistical institute, showed the actual risk at 35.5%. ‘In no other country,’ he said, ‘is the gap between [the two] so great. Something is going on.’ he did accept, though, that data on extortion ‘call for a more careful review because the people affected are reluctant to report [it] out of fear.’

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