Fujimori formalizes plan to militarize policing; security experts and Congress voice skepticism

President Fujimori outlined formal plans to deploy the military into prisons and onto the streets to combat criminality and citizen insecurity, though whether the measure would be permanent or time-limited remained unclear. She intends to use the requested 120-day emergency legislative powers to implement the shift by decree. Security specialists expressed skepticism: a former interior minister asked 'Are they going to put troops into every corner store? Are we going to put a soldier in every bus?', noting that previous states of emergency have failed to reduce Peru's rising homicide rate and warning of the risk of increased human-rights violations. Left-of-center parties in Peru's new bicameral Congress said they would seek to impose conditions on the government's legislative-powers request before approving it.