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BY PRINCE GOLEZ
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Monday, May 22, 2017
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MANILA – Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV on Sunday urged his colleagues to pass the bill creating a national ID system.
“Aside from promoting efficient delivery of public services by curbing the perennial problem of providing various identifications in transacting with the government, this national ID system could also help our anticrime and anti-terror campaign,” Trillanes said.
“By having a centralized database, we would have easy access to information about suspects, fugitives and other lawless elements,” he added.
Trillanes filed Senate Bill No. 95, which mandates the government to issue a Filipino Identification Card, which shall integrate all existing government-initiated identification systems.
In the House of Representatives, a counterpart measure got past the committee on population and family relations on May 10 and will be presented in the plenary for second reading.
The card would serve as the official identification for all Filipino citizens of the Republic of the Philippines, here and abroad, the Senate bill said.
Applicants shall apply for the registration and issuance of the Filipino ID at the Office of the Local Civil Registrar of the city or municipality where they reside.
The Department of Foreign Affairs shall handle the registration of overseas Filipinos at the nearest Philippine embassy or Consular Office.
Trillanes said the initial application for the Filipino ID shall be free of charge as part of the government’s social service responsibility.
“By having a single database of the identification of Filipinos, this measure could also reduce leakage in providing social services to the people, such as the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program bureaucracy and in simplifying the process relative to public and private services,” he said./PN
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