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Energy Company JPS, is reporting that the police have assisted in a breakthrough regarding breaches of its new network in Tivoli Gardens.  This, as a male resident of that community was arrested last Thursday (January 24), for illegally accessing the Residential Advanced Metering Infrastructure (RAMI) system in that community. 

It is reported that the man allegedly reconnects JPS customers who have been disconnected, and that he allegedly carries out these reconnections for customers in both Tivoli Gardens and Denham Town.

The police caught the alleged perpetrator at roughly 3:30am on Thursday January 24, carrying out a reconnection exercise in the Energy Guard box, located atop a light post. 

Additionally, JPS, as part of its intensified anti-theft programme, continued to carry out the removal of illegal connections in the communities of Waterhouse, Olympic Gardens and Tower Hill going into the weekend (January 25-26).  A total of 1,856 'throw-ups' were removed and 478 cases of bridged meter sockets/self-reconnections, meter bypasses and other illegal connections were detected and removed - including those at two businesses - an off-track betting shop and woodwork establishment.

Last year, 62 persons were arrested and charged for the illegal abstraction of electricity.  The arrest in Tivoli Gardens brings to 2 the number of arrests for this crime, since the start of 2013  - as JPS carries out a more intensified programme against the theft of electricity.