PNP will buy more than 28,000 American pistols

He government of Dina Boluarte will spend 13.5 million dollars for the acquisition of a first batch of 28 thousand 707 guns 9mm for the National Police. These weapons come from the United States and are called the SiG Sauer SP2022. Thus, they will replace the previous Italian pistols, brand Beretta 92F, which the police have been using for almost twenty years.

To choose this new American brand, the Government subjected to a series of evaluations five models of gunsas part of the 2015-2019 Plan for Modernization, Repowering, Replacement and Renovation of Equipment, led by the Ministry of the Interior and National Police.

source of the National Directorate of the National Police They revealed to La República newspaper that the company Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) entered the competition to supply pistols to the Peruvian government, which offered the Jericho 941RPSL pistol; Czech CZ P09; the Italian Beretta; the Brazilian Bull; and the American factory SiG Sauer.

Before submitting to the public call for tenders, at the request of the Peruvian State, these companies they had to have the support of their respective countries for the contracts to be signed on a government-to-government basis. The aim was to eliminate middlemen who sought to make goods more expensive in order to obtain better prices and guarantees. In this case, the embassies presented the offers.

On Monday, November 30, precision and operation, resistance and safety tests were carried out in the facilities of the Directorate of Special Operations of the National Police (Diroes)because it is required by law.

Finally, the Peruvian state opted for the acquisition of the pistols of the american brand despite the fact that the weapon that comes from the Czech Republic is the one with the highest score. This decision was made even though the weapon of the North American brand presented difficulties when thrown from a height of 1.5 meters and then fired the 15-round magazine. For this reason, he should have been disqualified, but he was not.

It should be noted that the israeli society He demanded $13,93,856 in exchange for 28,000 pistols. The representatives of the Czech Republic requested 11 million 827 thousand 284 dollars, while the Americans they asked for 13 million 232 thousand 778 dollars.

The companies CZ, IWI, Taurus and Beretta have assured that they will present challenges to the results because they believe they were not qualified properly and they indicated favors.

Sources from the Ministry of the Interior and National Police They noted that challenges are common in these processes. They pointed out that the Public Procurement Monitoring Agency (OSCE) and the Comptroller General of the Republic can check the process because they have the test results.

José Luis Sánchez, representative of the North American company, said that the pistol that was subjected to the process had no problems during the drop test. He said he had exceeded all evidence.

“In the weapon drop test, there were no incidents within the scope of what the protocol determines. test It was watched by many people. If something had happened, we wouldn’t have adopted it because someone might have said something. But it was not so. The gun didn’t jam once. We totally passed that test,” he said.