Decentralization of authority to issue and change citizen identification cards to provincial police

Deputy Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Hai Duong province Nguyen Thi Viet Nga spoke at the discussion session on the afternoon of June 22.Photo: National Assembly Electronic Information Portal

Speaking at the discussion in the hall, Deputy Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Hai Duong province Nguyen Thi Viet Nga gave comments on the authority to issue, change and reissue ID cards.

Article 29 of the draft stipulates that “The head of the identification management agency of the Ministry of Public Security has the authority to issue, change, and reissue identification cards”. Delegate Nga suggested that these tasks should be decentralized to provincial-level police agencies for Vietnamese citizens, reducing time, costs, and pressure on the agency responsible for issuing citizen identification cards at the central level.

“Previously, the issuance of identity cards was also the responsibility of the provincial police agency and was carried out relatively stably. In particular, in the context of the current interconnected database system, each person has a personal identification number, so the management of issuance, re-issuance, and exchange of citizen identification cards will not overlap or the phenomenon of one person having multiple identity card numbers as before,” said delegate Nguyen Thi Viet Nga.

Deputy Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Hai Duong Province Nguyen Thi Viet Nga also agreed with the renaming of the Citizen Identification Law to the Identification Law. Delegate Nga said that this draft law has added a group of people of Vietnamese origin, so renaming the law will include this group of people within the scope of the law.

According to the Deputy Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Hai Duong province, the application name “VNeID” should not be strictly defined in the law, but should only be defined by a general name such as electronic identification application. Lessons learned from practice show that many applications that have been built and put into use have a very short lifespan, are rarely used, do not achieve the expected efficiency and have been replaced by other, more superior applications.

According to the delegate, another aspect that needs to be noted when using the electronic identification application is security. This is an extremely important requirement in the implementation of the application. In addition to using a password to log in, it is necessary to study higher security options, multi-layer security when logging into the application to minimize the disclosure and illegal exploitation of personal information.

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