By Dominic B. dela Cruz
Staff reporter
Laoag
City—All Laoag City government-owned
vehicles will soon be tracked anywhere anytime.
This becomes possible after
the city government began installing global positioning system (GPS) kits in
the said vehicles.
Laoag information technology
officer Franz Reginal Felipe said at least 20 vehicles are already equipped
with GPS. He disclosed that vehicles assigned to the engineering officer were
the first ones to be tagged.
He admitted that one of the
main reasons for the GPS project was the issue about garbage compactors losing
fuel. The drivers for said vehicles have already been probed by the
disciplinary and separation board.
“Daytoy ket tapnu makita a nalaing no kasanu ken manu a litro iti
gasolina iti nataray da base no manu met a kilometro tay nataray da,” Mr.
Felipe explained.
He added that with the GPS,
the vehicles can be located anytime, anywhere. The vehicles’ speed and
direction can also be ascertained.
Aside from garbage
compactors, the engineering office has the most number of vehicles assigned by
the city government; this include heavy equipment and other
construction-related vehicles.
Mr. Felipe explained that the
GPS provides information through short messaging system (SMS), or text message
and web interphase.
The GPS system can be viewed
by Laoag officials, especially the mayor, department heads and the general
services office (GSO), which is mostly in charge of all the vehicles.
Mr. Felipe said they plan to
put GPS kits on all city government vehicles. However, this still depends on
the availability of funds.
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