Coating to protect
B.C. drivers from:

licence forgery

B.C. MOTORISTS will be the first
in North America to have their
drivers’ licences protected against
forgery by a new thin film coating.

Beginning July 4, all future
drivers’ licences issued will receive
the new security coating, Minister
of Transportation and Highways
Stephen Rogers announced recent-
ly. The coating, developed by the
National Research Council, will
also be introduced on British Col-
umbia Identification Cards.

The coating is placed over key
information on the‘licence such as
the name, age and photograph of
the driver. The coating reveals dif-
ferent images when viewed from
different angles, making the in-
formation on the card extremely
difficult to falsify.

The Ministry’s decision to apply
the coating is in response to rec-
ommendations from police forces
and the Liquor Control Review
Commission who seek improve-
ments to driver’s licence and iden-
tification card security.

This reflective material will be
applied to the cards wiih the Pro-
vincial Coat of Arms and the
words ‘‘British Columbia’’ across
the licence class, birthdate, expiry
date and date of issue. The coat of
arms will overlay the applicant's

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picture to prevent substitution.

This new feature is visible in a
wide variety of lighting conditions
by tilting the licence to reflect
light.

An etching of the Legislative
Building will replace the photo
reproduction of the buildings cur-
rently incorporated on the licence.

The Ministry is the first com-
mercial user of this security tech-
nology in North America. The film
is manufactured under the trade
name Identicoat by Identicard of
Toronto and is applied to the cards
at the company’s facilities in Vic-
toria.

The Motor Vehicle Department
currently produces approximately
50,000 drivers’ licences and iden-
tification cards per month. The
film coating accounts for only nine
per cent of the 78 cents it costs to
manufacture a driver's licence.

The department expects to issue
approximately three million
drivers’ licences over the next five
years.

The new licences will be phased
in as drivers renew them and will
be immediately available to new
drivers. The current style licence
will not be completely phased out
until 1993,

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GARY JANKE
SERVICE ADVISOR

BRIAN REGAN
CENTRE MANAGER

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