CEBU CITY – The new chief of the Land Transportation Office-Central Visayas (LTO-7) assumed his post on Tuesday, June 20.
OUTGOING LTO-7 Director Victor Caindec with incoming LTO-7 chief Glen Galario. (FB)
Glen Galario replaced Victor Emmanuel Caindec, who served as LTO-7 regional director for five years and six months.
Galario was the assistant regional director of LTO-7 when Caindec started to head the office on Jan. 23, 2018.
Caindec confirmed his relief through a statement where he also enumerated his accomplishments as LTO-7 chief.
He said he was “greeted with several pressing issues” at the time that he took over as LTO-7 chief.
Caindec said among the issues he had to deal with included “half a million license card backlogs that needed printing, thousands of registration backlogs, overcapacity and unkempt offices, and personnel demoralized by career stagnation due to an incoherent performance system.”
“All these and many mired the LTO in the public view as a corrupt and hopeless agency beyond reform. I faced all of these with the belief that an inspiring leadership and faith in people to do good will achieve great things,” he said.
Caindec said one of his accomplishments as LTO-7 chief was the increasing of LTO-7 offices from 18 to 36.
“We opened the first and largest licensing center in an SM mall across the country; the largest district office in a mall at Robinsons Galleria; a sprawling LTO-Carcar office. All at no cost to the government,” he said.
“We have opened offices in the islands of Camotes and Bantayan, went south to Dalaguete, and westward by opening Balamban and Ronda, covered the farthest border of Negros Oriental with La Libertad, and increased the licensing centers in Bohol from one to now four offices,” he added.
Caindec also initiated the creation of ePatrol Team, an LTO mobile service, which served close to over 60 local government units of Cebu, Bohol, and Negros.
“The Theoretical Driving Course (TDC) scholarship program of LTO-7, reaching the grassroots sector, is bar-none best in class with close to 20,000 graduates across the entire region, with demand growing by the day,” Caindec said.
According to Caindec, the “old stuffy and crowded” LTO-7 office on N. Bacalso Ave. in Cebu City was transformed into a Malasakit Hub, which is the only LTO licensing center in the country dedicated to special sectors and graduates of free TDC program.
“The same Malasakit Center which had hosted free venues for meetings of special sectors, also became the Covid Operations Center of Cebu City Medical Center during the height of Covid, and used as backup sleeping quarters for medical personnel,” Caindec said.