The Government’s deputy delegate in A Coruña, María Rivas, highlighted the Government’s commitment to basic public services in rural Galicia, where mobile units of the National Police are being deployed for the issuance of ID cards and passports. He did so, accompanied by the mayor of Negreira, Miguel Ángel Leis, during a visit to the municipality, where today the VIDOC of the National Police was operating, serving both the neighborhood of A Baña and Negreira.
María Rivas highlighted the Government’s work “to improve people’s quality of life, promoting a useful administration close to the citizens that allows them to access basic services such as the renewal of their ID or passport,” explained the deputy delegate.
“Thanks to the new VIDOC units,” added the subdelegate, “the neighborhood will be able to have any of the two documents ready in just ten minutes.” These units improve the response times of the previous ones, which needed three days to do the management: the first for the fingerprint, the second for printing and the third for delivery. In addition, as a novelty, the units incorporate the issuance of the passport, a service that until now was possible carried out within the police premises.
“The Government of Spain looks to the rural, and demonstrates this by bringing these basic services closer to all citizens, including those neighbors who live in smaller towns,” said Rivas.
The National Police has six vehicles throughout the Galician community and allocates three to the province of A Coruña, which will travel through 27 concellos Coruñeses that do not have a police station, in addition to the Prison Center of Teixeiro.
The VIDOCs will serve from Monday to Friday in a common manner and will be the superior headquarters of the Police, with a joint work with the Concellos, who will decide the places of travel. In that sense, she stressed that these actions “represent a before and an after for the entire neighborhood, especially for the small concellos, paying a historical debt to all and bringing to the doors of their homes services that they had to move through before, wasting time and resources,” said the subdelegate.
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The VIDOCs are part of the Digital Identity Plan of the General Directorate of the National Police financed from the funds of the Recovery Plan, allowing to increase the frequency of travel to the concellos and improving the services provided to the rural neighborhood.
To these mobile vehicles are added the National Police Documentation Update Points. “Both facilitate digital procedures for rural residents, bringing the functions of the Administration closer to them,” added the deputy delegate.
The Galician community has 27 PADs distributed in different concellos, while the province of A Coruña is equipped with 8 PADs that are already in full performance: Cee, Melide, Noia, As Pontes, Rianxo, Ordes, Vimianzo and Sada.
The devices have a touch screen and a keyboard from which the neighborhood can carry out different basic tasks such as updating digital certificates, renewing electronic ID data or changing passwords.