The Land Transportation Office is seeking the help of Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook Inc.) to take down accounts that illegally offer online assistance for driver’s license and motor vehicle registration transactions.
LTO chief Vigor Mendoza II ordered all regional directors and district heads to monitor Meta and other social media platforms for groups or individuals that offers “palakad” or online assistance for LTO transactions.
“We will also tap all our employees to immediately report to their district heads any accounts that offer LTO online assistance. We are one family, and it is each one’s obligation to protect the name of our agency,” he said.
“We are also planning to give incentives to LTO employees whose information could lead to the arrest of these online scammers and take down their social media accounts,” he added.
The LTO earlier complied with the directive of Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista to digitize all transactions in the agency.
Mendoza said student permits, driver’s license application and renewal as well as motor vehicle registration and renewal can now be done online through the Land Transportation Management System.
“This digital shift has improved our anti-corruption measures in the agency because it results in less human intervention, particularly those involving fixers,” he said.
“There are a few that dupe people through social media, and that we are focusing on this matter. I will not allow them to destroy the reforms we have instituted,” he added.