In addition to the video surveillance cameras, the Comptroller General of the Republic also reviewed the state of vehicles acquired by the current edile efforts to reinforce patrolling focused on guaranteeing citizen security. The panorama is discouraging, as the maximum control body detected almost 300 inoperative vehicles.
The most alarming case is in ATE. The management of Mayor Franco Vidal has 71 inoperative vehicles, as detected by the Comptroller at the end of March 2025. The same sub -management of citizen security reported that five cars, 24 trucks and 42 motorcycles are unusable.
In San Juan de Lurigancho, Serenazgo’s sub -management reported that they had 62 operational motorcycles and another 50 inoperative motorcycles. when performing an inspection, the Comptroller found 39 of these inoperative motorcycles stored in the base module called “21st century.” The units, according to the photographs taken at the end of March, are piled up, dusty and only covered by a blue plastic.
San Isidro registered Inoperative units, distributed as follows: eight trucks, 12 cars and 27 motorcycles. “It has been aware that several of the trucks and cars that have the state of inoperative, remaining some of them out of service for a period greater than 250 days, which significantly limits the patrol capacity and the response to security incidents,”points out the Comptroller’s report.
In this regard, the management of Mayor Nancy Vizurraga reported that this 2025 plan to invest S/ 20 million for the modernization of the equipment for citizen security. “For the second semester of the year the vehicular fleet of the Serenazgo service will be renewed, with the acquisition of 32 new vehicles that will be added to patrolling in the streets”, Indicated after recognizing that 30% of San Isidro vehicles are in the process of discharging due to their age and poor condition.
In Santa Anita, the management of Mayor Olimpio Alegría not only faces problems with 38 inoperative cameras, but also accumulates 26 vehicles that cannot be used for the patrol of their district. These are six pick -up trucks and 20 linear motorcycles.
“They are inoperative due to their poor state of conservation and deterioration of body, motor, chassis, cabin and operating systems; and the repair expenses proposed by the entity’s teacher workshop would be greater in relation to its real value resulting in an onerous repair”, Points out the report of the maximum control body.
Carabayllo is another district with a mix of inoperative units: 11 trucks and eight motorcycles. In this case, the Comptroller not only warned of the lack of maintenance, but also for the little care of the units. “The vehicles are in the open, exposed to the sun, rain, wind and dust, without any protection against weather events, a fact that generates accelerated and rapid wear of the auto parts of the vehicles, affecting its subsequent functioning”, He says in his report where he details that one of the trucks has been waiting for repair for two years.
Other units that were found in a state of abandonment were the 13 inoperative motorcycles of the municipality of Comas. The Comptroller corroborated in its inspection visits that the motorcycles declared as inoperative did not have some of its auto parts, such as tire, hoop, engine accessories, handlebar, fifties, mirrors, among others.
The control report details that even supposedly operational motorcycles also recorded missing pieces and were parked next to the inoperative. “During the inspection visit held on March 26, 2025, it was evidenced that the motorcycles is parked in the place where the “inoperative” motorcycles were locatedwrite down the document.
| District | Inoperative vehicles (motorcycles, trucks and cars) |
|---|---|
| Ate | 71 |
| San Juan de Lurigancho | 50 |
| San Isidro | 47 |
| Santa Anita | 26 |
| San Martin de Porres | 21 |
| Carabayllo | 19 |
| Stone bridge | 16 |
| The Augustine | 15 |
| Comas | 13 |
| La Perla (Callao) | 3 |
| La Punta (Callao) | 1 |
The motorcycles assigned by Lima
The Municipality of Lima yielded, throughout 2024, motorcycles to different districts of the capital to reinforce the patrol work. However, The merchantOr warned, at the end of 2024, that edile efforts such as victory do not use 100% units due to the lack of motorized serene. This problem caused municipalities to choose to store the motorcycles unused.
For this 2025, the problem persists and has spread to other districts, as detected by the Comptroller. In Santa Anita, the control body found 35 operational units that do not carry out patrol in the streets of the district for lack of motorized serene: 12 come from the transfer of use by the agreement with the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima, and the other 23 owned by the Municipality of Santa Anita only has 65 motorized serene, which reaches to cover 22 men per shift.
In the Augustine it was verified that 15 of the 25 motorcycles assigned by the Municipality of Lima for patrol were inoperative, which represent 60% of the total of their motorized units.
Among the inoperative motorcycles, three have the condition of “accidents”: 2 with a police report (technical expertise of the damage), and one does not count said attest although they indicated that it was in the process of process.
In another report by the Comptroller, dating from January 2025, the districts are detailed where the motorcycles delivered by the Municipality of Lima have been breaking with the mileage of patrolling agreed by the edile efforts.
Of 28 districts visited, the control body found that nine municipalities recorded this mileage breach: Miraflores, Chaclacayo, La Victoria, Villa El Salvador, Cieneguilla, ATE, San Juan de Lurigancho, Rímac, Ancón, Chorrillos, Lurín, San Bartolo, Pachacamac, Santa María del Mar, San Miguel, San Borja.
In nine other districts, the municipalities did not consign the mileage of the motorcycles received, and some edile efforts preferred to object to the work methodology of the Comptroller. In the case of Barranco, the management of Mayor Jessica Vargas said that the control reports did not contain the source of how the breach of the daily journey of the motorcycles was identified.
In its report, the Comptroller also makes a call for attention to the Municipality of Lima for its lack of inspection regarding motorcycles that yielded to the district municipalities. As specified by the control body, the management of Mayor Rafael López Aliaga recent Commerce On the case the victory. “In this context, what is indicated by the entity is verified, it is an action to respond to the journalist publication, more as a result of the shares control and monitoring of its charge”, Points out the document.
To Aron Espinozacouncilor of Podemos in the Municipality of Lima, Lor detected by the Comptroller’s Comptroller that there was no planning due when giving the motorcycles. “Since 2024 I warned that Lima’s resources were being put at risk by distributing motorcycles without technical criteria and without having a study on the situating of the patrol units that the district municipalities have and about the amount of motorized serene with which each municipality can have to operate the units. A rethinking in the distribution is required, or from the contrary at the end of the year we could be facing problems older for the loss of units “said Espinoza.
The Comptroller found in a place in San Juan de Lurigancho some dusty motorcycles that are barely covered by a blue plastic.
In Santa Anita, the Comptroller found vans full of dust in remarkable carelessness.
Carabayllo’s trucks that cannot be used are abandoned in an unattended deposit and some have expect repairs for two years.
In this district of Lima Norte, inoperative motorcycles are missing pieces, according to the Comptroller’s Office in its inspection visit to Comas.
In Santa Rosa, the maximum control body found that there are seven vehicles but these remain stored and are not used due to an alleged lack of driver personnel.
The National Police of Peru also received motorized units from the Municipality of Lima, so the Comptroller’s Office included them in their visits to inspection. And report November 2024 reports that they found, in The Special Services Division of the Lima Police Region, 14 motorcycles that They were not able to turn on because there was no key so that its operation could not be checked, another six were not able to light for possible battery downloaded, and one had entered the workshop for “incident”.
On the other hand, they detected that 27 of the 29 motorcycles located in the facilities did not have their lumps, which were removed due to the nature of the activities of the police that operate with two people. The detail is that this breaches the provisions of the fifth clause of the agreement with the Municipality of Lima, where it is indicated that: “(…) is prevented from performing some type of maintenance, installation of additional equipment or accessories, uninstall (..)”.
In the center base of the hawks it was noted that the motorized units are “outdoor parked, exposed to moisture, dust and particulate material (air dust) which could deteriorate them, affecting their adequate conservation.”
