No Emirates ID? No traffic services across UAE

Persons dealing with the traffic police must produce their national ID card under new regulations that linked the ID to all traffic police departments across the UAE, a senior police officer was reported on Sunday as saying.

Persons who do not hold the ID card will be denied all services offered by the traffic police and this should prompt all nationals and residents to register with the national ID, said Brigadier Gaith Al Zaabi, director general of the traffic coordination division at the ministry of interior.

“All traffic and vehicle licensing departments through the UAE are now enforcing a mandatory rule stipulating those who seek to benefit from their services to produce an ID card,” he said, quoted by the Arabic language daily Alkhaleej.

“Those who do not have an ID card can still benefit from these services by registering for the ID and producing a receipt showing they have registered…without the ID or the receipt, the traffic and licensing departments have been instructed not to receive any paper or application.”

Zaabi did not elaborate on the services but traffic police sources said they include car registration and renewal of the present vehicles, issuing and renewal of driving licences, replacement of number plates and other facilities.

Authorities have already linked the ID to immigration and residence departments and this means expatriates can not issue or renew a visa without that card.

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