優良運転講習オンラインで　行政デジタル化、試行へ―コロナ対策にも・警察庁

　警察庁は２９日、政府が進める行政のデジタル化や新型コロナウイルス対策の一環で、違反歴がないなどの「優良運転者」が運転免許証を更新する際の講習をオンライン化する方針を決めた。モデルとなる警察本部を１カ所選び、来年度以降に試行を始める。
　試行を踏まえ、全国での導入を検討する。同庁は、２０２１年度予算の概算要求に、講習のオンライン化を含む警察業務のデジタル化・リモート化の推進費として約３８億円を盛り込んだ。
　運転免許の更新手続きは各地の試験場や警察署などで行われているが、来場者が集中するケースもあり、新型コロナ対策が課題となっていた。講習のオンライン化で、待ち時間短縮や混雑緩和が期待できるという。（2020/09/29-08:33）

Japan's National Police Agency plans to conduct a lecture for certain driver's license renewals online as part of the government's push to digitalize administrative procedures and as a way to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, agency officials said Tuesday.
   The agency will introduce the online lecture for so-called "excellent drivers," who have held a license for five or more continuous years and have no records of traffic violations nor accidents. Such drivers are also called "gold license drivers" due to the color of their five-year licenses.
   The NPA plans to begin the initiative on a trial basis in the next fiscal year or later at one model police headquarters.
   It will determine whether to expand the scheme nationwide after seeing the results of the trial.
   The agency included some 3.8 billion yen for digitalizing police duties and promoting remote working, including expenses for the online lecture, in its budget request for fiscal 2021.