PPO deputy provincial director for operations P/Lt. Col. Joey Jonathan Bagayao reported Tuesday during the Palawan Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict's (PTF-ELCAC) Multi-Sectoral Security Summit at the Provincial Capitol that the trend line for index crimes or crimes against persons and properties decreased from 856 in 2015 to 617 in 2016, 502 in 2017, and 384 in 2018.