Govt moves to tighten NRD security after scandal

PETALING JAYA: Setting up a DNA data bank and upgrading security levels for National Registration Department (NRD) staff are among the measures to be put in place after it was rocked by the illegal sale of birth certificates and identity cards.

Information from the DNA data bank, which will be included in future birth certificates, was proposed as part of a move to improve the department’s delivery system and standard operating procedures, said Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.