Riyadh residents to be registered

RIYADH: The High Commission for Riyadh Development (HCRD) has completed preparation for the registration of residents in the capital. The registration will be done under a system that will store addresses of residents and link the information to a database.
The system also works to identify the mechanisms for address updating. According to HCRD, the project will boost business, planning efforts, development and security, as well as social conditions in the capital.
An HCRD source said the residential registration system, or RRS, functions to build a database for the population and provide an accurate statistics and information relating to families. It will also work to document key information about the population. New immigrants to the capital will have to register their residential addresses.
Riyadh Gov. Prince Sattam, who is also president of the Supreme Committee for Urban Security in Riyadh, ordered the National Information Center or NIC at the Ministry of Interior to implement the project in collaboration with HCRD.
The same source said that as many as 16 governments agencies have participated in the preparation of the system, notably the Riyadh governorate office, the ministries of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Education, Justice, Labor, the National Information Center, Department of e-Government (Yusr) and the Department of Civil Affairs in Riyadh.
The system that will be operational within the next couple of days will be implemented to link with the private sector for the development of the business environment. The system may also be applied at the national level at a later date.
Among the most prominent sectors that are expected to contribute to the development of the new system are the security sector in the city, through its role in determining the relationship between crime, location and perpetrator. It will also determine the distribution of facilities and necessary security services, such as police stations, civil defense, headquarters, security patrols and other law enforcement agencies. This will reduce the practice of nonappearances before government authorities such as courts by providing an accurate information on the place of involved party.
The system will develop mechanisms for monitoring the use of land, in terms of the nature and type of uses, and ratios of vacant land and housing occupancy. It will also help the authorities determine the percentages of residential growth and need for schools etc. The program will provide information about the age of the population in a certain area, which forms the basis for determining the need for the construction of schools and the distribution of educational resources.
The registration system is expected to achieve better distribution of health facilities and medical staff keeping in view the need of the area, and help monitor the spread of diseases and epidemics.