Caloocan launches computerized civil registry

MANILA, Philippines - Caloocan City assured its residents yesterday that their civil records will be released in a matter of minutes after the city civil registrar’s operations were computerized last week.

Mayor Enrico Echiverri said with the launch in Caloocan of the “first ever computerized civil registrar in the entire country,” it would now take only around five minutes to process the needed document.

“This is another victory for our city and you can be rest assured that we will continue to come up with meaningful projects that will surely benefit the people,” he said.

Echiverri said that with the computerized civil registry, residents would no longer have to deal with fixers.

He said the project, using the new computerized format, would also save residents from long hours of waiting for their documents.

Echiverri said the encoding of records, particularly for certificates of birth, marriage and death immediately started with the activation of the project on Nov. 18, his 56^th birthday.

The computerization program covered documents from the 1900s up to the present.