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03/08/2012
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The mobile vehicle of the Office of Weights and Measures of the State of Rio de Janeiro (RJ-IPEM), Baby, became the inspiration for Procon create its mobile unit that will meet the state's population.
According to the project officer of Procon, Firmino Figueiredo de Almeida Mota, currently the department has two vans that perform community service in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro.
"We researched some types of mobile and model of IPEM is what else can meet our needs," he said.
Firmino Mota was the headquarters of the RJ-IPEM in Piedade, on January 27, to see the baby and was impressed with the infrastructure of the vehicle.
"It's perfect! Is a body adaptation and that can move to the most remote places in order to meet the needs of the population. This is the Procon search," he said.
Baby, the mobile service of the IPEM, RJ
The municipalities in the state that do not have the regional Office of Weights and Measures of the State of Rio de Janeiro (RJ-IPEM) may already have all the infrastructure of the organ, since the bus service Mobile Office, which is responsible check the balance in markets, restaurants, pharmacies and clinics, and other services, and benchmarking of taximeters taxis circulated by the municipalities.
According to the president of the RJ-IPEM, Soraya Santos, the mobile service aims to speed up service and prevent possible irregularities that may come to harm consumers, because the Office of Weights and Measures of the State of Rio de Janeiro is one of main agents of consumer protection.
"Our bus, affectionately called Baby, will move by municipalities to ensure that products and instruments are within the standards required by law. Therefore, each week we'll be in a municipality to determine whether those standards are being met, and thus preserving the consumers, "he said.
To give impetus to the service to be held, the Baby is equipped with two computers that are operated by technicians from the laboratories of Legal Metrology, and Quality of Mass-RJ IPEM. Besides giving technical support during the operations and fiscal analyzes that are performed, professional IPEM RJ-record claims and consumer complaints. In addition, the Baby has space for wheelchairs, ramps, and handicapped access elevator.
To give impetus to the service to be held, the Baby is equipped with two computers that are operated by technicians from the laboratories of Legal Metrology, and Quality of Mass-RJ IPEM. Besides giving technical support during the operations and fiscal analyzes that are performed, professional IPEM RJ-record claims and consumer complaints. In addition, the Baby has space for wheelchairs, ramps, and handicapped access elevator.
Source: RJ-IPEM
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