New National Registry of Neighborhood Councils enables tax benefits and scholarships

The Executive Branch published Supreme Decree No. 009-2026-IN, which modifies the Regulations of Law No. 29701 to create the National Registry of Neighborhood Citizen Security Boards and enable the identification and support measures provided by Law No. 32487. The regulation appears in the Legal Norms section of the Official Gazette El Peruano on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, and was signed at the Government House on November 9 by President Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi, countersigned by the ministers of the Interior, César Augusto Astudillo Salcedo, and Education, José Antonio Chang Escobedo.

Pending Adaptation since Law 32487

The provision fulfills the mandate of the Third Final Complementary Provision of Law No. 32487, which required the Executive Branch to adapt the regulations of Law No. 29701 within a period not exceeding ninety (90) calendar days. The text modifies Article 1 and incorporates Articles 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, as well as the First and Second Final Complementary Provisions and the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Transitory Complementary Provisions of the regulations approved by Supreme Decree No. 002-2013-IN.

The project was published on August 28, 2026, via Ministerial Resolution No. 1277-2026-IN, with fifteen calendar days for comments; once the deadline expired on September 12, 2026, no contributions or suggestions were received, according to the recitals. The Technical Secretariat of the Multisectoral Commission for Regulatory Quality of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers determined that the regulation is outside the scope of the Ex Ante Regulatory Impact Analysis.

A Registry Managed by the National Police

The new Article 11 provides that the registry is managed by the National Police of Peru, through the Community Police Directorate, for the identification, systematization, and monitoring of the recognized boards. Access is restricted to authorized personnel through differentiated profiles and is subject to Law No. 29733, the Law on the Protection of Personal Data.

Registration requirements include:

• The constitution act of the Neighborhood Citizen Security Board.
• The resolution of recognition of the Board.
• The resolution of appointment of its coordinators, if applicable.

The registry records, among other data, the name of the board, the date of the recognition resolution, its validity, the region and police division, the reference police station, the district, the sector, the quadrant, and the number of members; for each member, names, identity document, date of birth, mother tongue, education level, position, and activity status are noted. The data is kept as long as the person maintains the status of member or representative and for a maximum of two (02) years from the date of cessation.

Assets, hearings, and participatory budgets

Article 12 enables the National Police of Peru, regional governments, and local governments to temporarily assign assets related to citizen security, with three treatment categories:

• Recoverable assets, of significant value and prolonged useful life, which are returned or reassigned to another board.
• Assets subject to natural wear and tear, which are not incorporated into the patrimonial registry.
• Assets for installation or permanent community use, such as alarms, fixed cameras, and sirens, which remain installed and are functionally reassigned.

Article 13 empowers accredited representatives to intervene in public hearings of regional and local governments, in the formulation of citizen security action plans, and in the workshops of the Concerted Local Development Plan. Article 14 allows regions and municipalities to grant tax and non-tax benefits to registered members, with terms that cannot exceed the duration of the board or the tenure of the beneficiary.

Additional points for scholarships and progressive deployment

Article 15 establishes that board members and their children may access additional points in the national competitions of the National Program of Scholarships and Educational Credit (PRONABEC), as determined by the guidelines and with the value set by that entity. Financing shall be charged to the institutional budget of the competent entities, without demanding additional resources from the Public Treasury.

The implementation of the registry on a digital platform will be progressive, according to budget availability and the operational capacity of the National Police of Peru. In the meantime, the Community Police Offices of each police station will maintain a provisional digital registry and send the information monthly to the Information and Communications Technology Unit of the Community Police Directorate. The Ministry of the Interior must adapt, within a maximum period of forty-five (45) calendar days, the Organization and Functioning Manual of Neighborhood Boards, approved by Ministerial Resolution No. 0880-2015-IN.

The regulation is of interest to thousands of neighborhood leaders and municipalities that until now granted incentives without a single reference registry: the registry becomes the condition for accessing tax benefits, the temporary use of assets, and additional points for scholarships, and for the first time establishes rules for the conservation and confidentiality of the members’ personal data.

Source: Official Gazette El Peruano, Legal Norms, November 10, 2026, p. 16 (official reference: 2573253-4).