The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, highlighted in Santiago de Compostela the government’s commitment to basic public services in rural Galicia, where it will deploy mobile units of the National Police for the issuance and renewal of ID cards and passports. Pedro Blanco presented these units today, the Integral Vehicles of Documentation of the National Police (VIDOC), in the Compostela Praza do Obradoiro together with subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas and the Superior Chief of Police of Galicia, Pedro Pacheco, who was accompanied by the Chief Commissioner of the Commissariat of Santiago, Nuria Palacios.
Pedro Blanco detailed that the Police assign six of these vehicles to Galicia, which will travel through at least 75 municipalities without a police station, with the possibility of adding more, to provide exclusive documentation services such as the renewal and issuance of ID cards and passports. The latter is a service that until now could not be performed outside the police premises.
Either of the two documents can be ready in just ten minutes, while until now it was necessary to get a ID from the rural one day for the fingerprint, another for printing at a police station and a third for delivery.
During the presentation, the government subdelegate renewed her own ID to check the functionality of this system.
“With this new police project, the Ministry of the Interior allows rural citizens to have the same capabilities as urban citizens,” said the delegate, emphasizing that the Government manages, with measures such as this, “to put the Administration at the service of society, making it more effective, useful and close.”
In this sense, he highlighted programs such as the ‘Administration near you’, which also allows to carry out the procedures of the administrative offices in the municipal units of the rural villas. All these actions “represent a before and an after for the neighborhood of the small municipalities, paying a historical debt to it by approaching the doors of their houses services for which they had previously had to move, losing time and resources.”
Pedro Blanco stressed that the Government strengthens equal opportunities and strengthens social and territorial cohesion by transforming Galicia and Spain. Just for that, he valued the social sensitivity of Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska and thanked the National Police for their work.
The VIDOCs will serve from Monday to Friday on a regular basis. The Superior Police Headquarters will determine the places of travel and it will be the municipalities that make up the list of citizens mentioned.