The Department Ground Transportation (DGTT) is calling on the National Police to ensure that its own agents renew their driver’s licenses in order to have the moral authority to ask civilians for this document. “The military and police have to adopt controls on driving licenses, so that they can have the moral authority to require all drivers to obtain a license,” said DGTT director Luis Estrella.
The official stated that the campaign to reduce the number of drivers with expired licenses should be implemented in two ways. “First there is the need to develop an educational strategy for driving on the roads, and the DGTT needs this budget for creating public awareness; the other is through monitoring, and this is where AMET comes into play. There has to be a mechanism for supervision and control so that people know that they have to renew their licenses,” he argued. Another thing is to train the police to have a better overview of the problem.”
According to a DGTT report, more than 839,000 drivers have expired licenses while another 120,000 licenses are totally out of date, five years after expiring. Of this group, more than 9,000 police agents and nearly 30,000 members of the Armed Forces have expired licenses