One of the Integral Vehicles of Documentation -VIDOC- that has been launched by the National Police for the issuance of ID and passport in municipalities throughout Spain is already operating in Navarre. This vehicle has been presented today by the delegate of the Government, Alicia Echeverría, and by the superior chief of police of the Foral Community, Manuel Jesús del Collado, and has issued documentation in the town of Elizondo.
Both have highlighted the usefulness of this service to bring the issuance of documentation to the rural environment immediately, avoiding the displacement of citizens and responding to the needs of each municipality.
This new vehicle is going to reach, for the moment, 24 municipalities. To the 9 localities to which the service of the Rural DNI was already provided (Tafalla, Estella/Lizarra, Elizondo, Sangüesa/Zangoza, San Adrián, Altsasu/Alsasua, Leitza, Auritz/Burguete and Ochagavía/Otsagabia) are incorporated 13 others (Cintruénigo, Lodosa, Carcastillo, Cortes, Ayegui/Aiegi, Buñuel, Los Arcos, Valtierra, Ankoreida, Dosireita, Cadialta. There are municipalities that already count up to 150 applications, and all exceed 30, since VIDOCs can issue up to 40 DNIs a day.
This vehicle has been made available to all Navarre towns with more than 1,000 inhabitants, and new requests are already being received. Next week he will travel to Auritz/Burguete, Altsasu/Alsasua, Leitza, Estella/Lizarra and Tafalla.
The function of VIDOCs
Within the framework of the Digital Identity Plan launched by the General Directorate of Police, a total of 80 Integral Vehicles of Documentation have been acquired and transformed with a transformation cost of almost 15 million euros financed through the Next Generation funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. The objective is that they serve in those urban centers of population where there are no National Police units.
The VIDOC vehicles served for the first time in Valencia to facilitate the issuance of the ID card, free of charge, to people affected by the DANA and have the ability to issue both the passport and the ID card instantly. It is therefore a question of improving the effectiveness, efficiency and accessibility of digital public services to citizens and companies.
So far, the model for issuing the National Identity Document in those municipalities that do not have a deployment of the National Police required that, through the Mobile Documentation Units, the agents travel, once again, to the municipalities to obtain the data of the citizens and their fingerprints. Subsequently, the document was issued in the police offices and returned a second time to the municipality, after a few days, to deliver the National Identity Document to its holder.
In addition, until the implementation of this service, the issuance of the Spanish passport was carried out exclusively by the Documentation Units only in police units, so people had to move to one of those units to obtain the document.
With the deployment of VIDOC vehicles, which have the same functionalities as a fixed Documentation Unit, both the ID and the passport can be issued in the same act and immediately in any population of the Spanish territory. These vehicles also have the ability to update DNI digital certificates, as they feature a portable DNIe upgrade point.
4 PAD in Navarran municipalities to renew DNI certificates
The launch of this vehicle in Navarre joins the recent installation of four Documentation Update Points (PAD) in the municipalities of Estella/Lizarra, Sangüesa/Zangoza, Lumbier and Falces.
To date, the PADs were located only in the National Police stations, from where citizens could renew the certificates of their National Identity Document and change the associated password. In this way, when the ID certificates expired, the people who resided in the municipalities that are not in the National Police demarcation had to travel to carry out this procedure.