SAN MANUEL – The government-owned National Transmission Commission (TransCO) has launched a massive information and education campaign in Northern Luzon through its district office in Pangasinan to curb the increasing incidents of pilferage in its facilities.

At the same time, TransCo’s security group, led by Willy Jazmin, is aggressively conducting surveillance operations in junkshops as these are the usual drop points of pilfered materials.

The commonly pilfered items from TransCo’s properties include Trans mission Line Materials (TLM) and other vital tower parts.

TransCo has yet to identify culprits and is seeking the help of town and barangay officials in its effort to stop the pilferage.

Jazmin called on the people to help them as the pilferages are causing much structural damage to their properties and affecting energy services to millions of electric consumers.

On October 31, the group uncovered about five tons of TLM and tower parts from a junkshop in Plaridel, Bulacan with the help of the police regional and provincial offices in the area.

The group uncovered TLM and tower parts from the junkshop of Lourdes Morante in Plaridel, Bulacan.

      Jazmin said recovered from Morante’s 4 K Junkshop in barangay Banga lst in Tabang were tons of assorted TLM materials, including tower legs, plates and angular braces, all owned by TransCo as evidenced by the serial numbers engraved in those materials.

TransCo is set to file charges against Morante in violation of the anti-fencing law and other related offenses despite her claim that there was no malicious intent on her part in buying and selling the materials seized from her shop.

Meanwhile, TransCo district manager Jose Arellano and other officials earlier signed a memorandum of agreement with a cellphone company to enable people to report pilferages through texting.

TransCo, is a government-owned and -controlled corporation, created in 2001 through Republic Act 9136 or the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001.

It assumed the transmission functions of the National Power Corporation (NPC) and is in charge of physical assets worth around $2 billion.

TransCo supplies power to plants owned by the NPC and to independent power producers nationwide, which, in turn, supply electricity to power distributors, electric cooperatives and other utility firms– LM

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