NO EXCLUSIVITY RESERVED FOR LOCALS

THE head of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) district office in Lingayen categorically denied reports by anonymous complainants that corruption involving her personnel is rampant and unchecked.

Aileen Peteros, head of the LTO Lingayen district office asked the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) not to assume the complaints as facts “only because some complainants said so.”

Pateros responded to the complaint aired during the Question Hour of the SP on January 24, belying the alleged complaint received by Second District Board Member Von Mark Mendoza that passenger of vans from Baguio and Cordillera provinces were being accommodated for registration at the local LTO district, resulting in delay in local owners’ registrations.

She said LTO’s Citizens Charter provides that it can accommodate applications for registration and renewal and issuance of new licenses from anywhere as long as the applicants satisfy all the requirements.

Peteros pointed out that the charter does not provide that only applicants from Lingayen and nearby towns for motor vehicle registration and for renewal and issuance of licenses should be processed because there is no geographical limitation for the service.

On Mendoza’s query if LTO still gives practical exams to new applicants for driver’s license despite having passed the theoretical exams from driving schools, Peteros said LTO has not surrendered its function to driving schools of testing applicants for driver’s license.

Peteros cited a memorandum of LTO central office in October last year that since LTO has limited personnel that can inspect vehicles for registration, vehicle owners are given the option to avail of the comprehensive inspection by the Private Motor Vehicle Inspection Center or by private emission testing centers.

Under the memo, if the vehicle already passed through the comprehensive inspection of PMVIC, it is no longer be subjected to physical inspection by LTO personnel, but vehicles inspected by emission testing center still need to be inspected by LTO.

Peteros said her office manned by only 11 organic personnel,   can only process 150 transactions, 100 for vehicle registration and 50 for licensing daily.

Generally, one LTO personnel can only inspect 12 four-wheel vehicles and 15 motorcycles a day and there are only three motor vehicle inspectors of LTO Lingayen, Peteros said, adding that results of comprehensive inspection by PMVIC can hasten the workflow in the office. (Leonardo Micua)

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