The Government’s deputy delegate in A Coruña, María Rivas, highlighted 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. María Rivas presented these units today, called Integral Vehicles of Documentation of the National Police (VIDOC), in A Coruña, accompanied by the provincial commissioner. Carlos Gómez.
The subdelegate detailed that the Police assign to the province three of the six vehicles assigned to Galicia, the highways will travel through 27 municipalities in Cordoba that do not have a police station, in addition to the Prison Center of Teixeiro, to provide services of exclusive documentation of them, such as the renewal and issuance of ID cards and passports. Now, thanks to the new VIDOC units, people who request an appointment in this service will be able to have any of the two documents ready in just ten minutes, also improving the response times of the previous units, which required three days for management: one day for the fingerprint, another for printing at a police station and a third for delivery. In addition, it is incorporated as a novelty in these vehicles to issue the passport, a service that until now could not be carried out outside the police premises.
These new vehicles, which are part of the Digital Identity Plan of the General Directorate of the National Police financed from the funds of the Recovery Plan, “will increase the frequency of trips to the municipalities as well as improve the services provided to the neighborhood,” said Rivas, who recalled that the VIDOCs will also have the capacity to update the DNI dixitai certificates, since they have a Documentation Update Point (PAD), which complements the eight that are being installed in different municipalities of the province, the first of them in Ordes.
“In this way, such a simple procedure as the renewal of the electronic ID certificate or the change or updating of the password, can be done both in these municipalities that already have a PAD and in these Vehicles, instead of having to move one of the four police stations that we have in this province,” explained the subdelegate.
New Digital ID
María Rivas highlighted the Government’s work “to improve people’s lives, promoting a useful Administration close to the citizens with programs such as the one presented today in A Coruña or the implementation of the digital ID”. This respect, he recalled that the Council of Ministers comes from approving a royal decree that regulates the process of issuance, management and development of the ID not only in its physical version but also for the first time in its digital version.
In this way, the use of the ID card adapts to the new digital challenges and offers citizens the possibility of having the National Identity Document in digital format on the mobile phone. “Its implementation will transform the way of accrediting the identity of citizens in their relations with the Public Administration and the private sector, which can now be done through an application installed on the mobile phone with the same legal validity as the physical ID and with the maximum guarantees of security,” said Rivas, who pointed out that Spain is one of the first European countries to address this challenge.
The access will be made through the MiDNI application and in a first phase will only allow the identification in person with the same validity as the DNI. “It will serve to accredit the identity in face-to-face procedures before the Administration, open a bank account, register in a hotel, rent a vehicle or pick up a package in the Post Office,” exemplified the subdelegate.
“In short, we continue to work to bring the services provided by the Administration closer to the citizens, trying to make them easier and easier, and that as much as possible, and especially in those towns with smaller populations, these services can arrive in the same way,” said María Rivas, who stressed that these actions “represent a before and an after for the neighborhood of small municipalities, paying a historical debt to it by bringing to the doors of their homes services for which they had previously had to travel, losing time and resources.”
The VIDOCs will serve from Monday to Friday in a common manner. The senior police headquarters will determine the places of travel and it will be the municipalities that make up the list of citizens mentioned.