Major general Nguyen Duy Ngoc, Deputy Minister of Public Security gives a speech at the conference. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Fifty million citizens will be issued with newidentity cards between now and July next year, the Ministry of Public Security(MoPS) have announced.
The announcement was made at an online conference on implementing the projectof manufacturing, granting and managing citizen identity organised by the MoPSon September 9 in Hanoi.
After the Law on Citizens’ Identity was passed by the National Assembly, theMoPS organised adjustments, conversions and updated production systems,issuance and management of identity cards to citizenship in 16 localities.
Up to now, nearly 17 million citizen identification cards have been issued. Thesystem is connected, shared and used by State management and professionalrequirements of the police.
Regarding the project of national database on population, police in differentlocalities have organised training courses on collecting and updating citizeninformation in the national population database.
By August 20, 59 out of 63 provinces and cities have collected informationaccording to the plan.
Up to now, 14 ministries, ministerial-level agencies and 45 provinces andcities have sent results to the Police Department of Administrative Managementof Social Order to connect and share.
But there are still a number of hurdles to overcome because of the sheer volumeof cards issued and information that needs to be amended.
Senior Lieutenant Colonel To Anh Dung, deputy director of the Police Departmentof Administrative Management of Social Order, said that the department hadprepared for training in 63 provinces and cities and will ask local police tomake a list of officers and soldiers to join training plan.
Speaking at the conference, Deputy Minister of Public Security Nguyen Duy Ngoc askedpolice departments to study and fully grasp the contents of the Prime Minister NguyenXuan Phuc's direction and the MoPS's plans to unify the awareness about theimportance and urgency of the citizen identification management project.
“We should research to make the most of what has already been done in previousprojects to reduce the workload,” Ngoc said.
Ngoc also requested local police departments evaluate the situation and resultsof issuing and managing citizen identification cards.
They should also assess the current situation of citizenship identification,perform fingerprint collection serving the project of producing, granting andmanaging citizen identity, to ensure cards are issued by July 1 next year./.
VNA
