GPL raids net 3,921 illegal connections

In 111 raids by the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) and the Guyana Police Force from January to June this year, 3921 illegal connections were detected and removed.

The raids were undertaken as part of the company’s intensified campaign to reduce electricity theft, GPL said in a release yesterday and it noted that so far 260 persons have been arrested for illegal diversion of electricity. The company, however, expressed frustration at the rate in which