Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Engr. Muhammad Amir has issued orders to the staff to be on alert at the company’s installations in the FESCO region, especially for transformers. He said that transformer thieves can take advantage of the darkness of night and heavy fog in winter to steal transformers and other FESCO installations. He has appealed to the public to cooperate with FSCO staff for the prevention of transformer theft.
Therefore, in the dark of the night, any unauthorized persons near transformers, wires, poles or other FESCO installations in a suspicious condition or loading transformers and other equipment in an unrelated vehicle, immediately inform at FESCO number 041-9220618, Helpline 118 or Police Help.
Engineer Muhammad Amir has warned the field officers and line staff to be diligent and careful during duty in the field and take emergency measures to prevent theft of transformers and other installations. In the light of these instructions, field staff have been mobilized across the region and transformers are being welded and monitoring teams are patrolling day and night to overcome the transformers theft cases.