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Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - The TransportPolice Department under the Ministry of Public Security and the Directorate forRoads of Vietnam under the Ministry of Transport have agreed to share a drivinglicence management database.
Traffic violation data from the Directorate forRoads of Vietnam will be shared on the website of the Traffic PoliceDepartment.
Local traffic police can update the informationof drivers who have their licences revoked or temporarily seized.
Sharing data will help save time, shortenadministrative procedures and avoid cheating and mistakes in licence issuance.
Many people lose their licences through fire, theft or some otheraccident. In those cases, licences should be promptly re-issued to help peopleout of their difficult situation.
However, many people who have had their licences temporarilyseized by police take advantage of the generous re-issuance policy by reportingtheir licence lost and getting a new one.
Since 2012, the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam has used a managementsystem which includes software that allows patrol forces to update the statusof a temporarily seized licence.
Previously, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of PublicSecurity had a joint circular guiding coordination and information exchange onissuing and changing licences.
Unfortunately, the system does not update completely or quicklyenough. The number of licences police recorded seizing is higher than thenumber shown in the system. This is because the data is not updated promptly,said Nguyen Van Quyen, Chairman of the Vietnam Automobile TransportAssociation.
According to the Transport Police Department, in2015 and 2016, traffic police reported revoking 211,149 licences to theDirectorate for Roads of Vietnam and local transport departments. Nearly160,000 of the drivers did not get their licences back when they were due to bereturned.
From 2017 through the first two months of 2019,traffic police revoked 749,091 licences.-VNS/VNA
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