The City of Cape Town has introduced live capturing units (LCUs) to deal with backlogs and cater for increasing demand at its licensing centres.
The units, which the city hopes will streamline the application process, will digitally capture applicants' photographs and fingerprints, eye test results and personal data, including signatures. They comprise a computer, mounted camera, lights, fingerprint reader, signature pad, scanner printer and customised software, which includes eye-testing programs.
”The live capture of an applicant's biometric features makes the data tamper-proof, preventing fraudulent changes after the capturing process,” says the City of Cape Town.
The first LCU has been installed at the Hillstar driving licensing and testing centre, and the city says that “once all teething problems have been resolved”, the system will be installed in all 16 driving licence testing centres in Cape Town.
The city reports that an average of 5 000 learner licence and 5 300 driving licence tests are processed every month. Over a million professional driving permits and driving card licences are also issued and renewed each month.
The LCUs form part of the city's move to automate processes and create a fully digital environment.
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