"NY" wrote in message
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"Harry Bloomfield"; "Esq." wrote in message
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Steve Walker formulated on Saturday :
I am happy for my details (as in passport/driving licence) to be on
record and to be available to the police to confirm my identity if I am
stopped for any reason, but do not want to have an ID card that I have
to carry. It is quite common for me to be doing some DIY then rush out
to my parents to borrow something or to the shops to pick up a click and
collect item, without changing my clothes or picking up cards and things
that I would rather not have in my pocket when crawling under the car or
similar.

I never leave my own property, without those things - I feel naked
without my wallet, but why would we have to proove who we are, anymore
than we do now, with driving licence? We don't have to carry it even when
driving - so I doubt they would expect us to always have the ID with us.
The point, for those majority who did have their ID with them - it makes
it easy to confirm who they are and be on their way.

As with a lot of things in life, there is no absolute legal requirement to
have your ID on you at the time you are asked for it, but you shouldn't be
surprised to find that doors are closed to you without ID or you have to
make a special journey to the police station to produce your driving
licence.

I usually carry my wallet (with driving licence) at all times,

I only do that when out of the house and it's a legal requirement when
driving here.

but as Steve says, there are times when you are in the middle of a DIY job
(or gardening) and nip out to take something to the tip etc. I carry my
wallet, not only so I've got means to pay for something that I didn't
anticipate, but also as ID in case I'm in an accident.

Me too.

I can be traced through my car,

I don't always have my car.

but if I'm not near my car at the time of the accident

And I am very unlikely to be when out walking for exercise.

then having ID on me helps the emergency services identify me

Yep.

and phone my wife

Don't have one of those.

etc

But lots of those.

or know that I'm on the organ donor register (*).

I'm not.

I'm so used to my wallet living in the pocket of whichever trousers I'm
wearing

I don't when at home.

that if I removed it, I wouldn't know where I'd left it. Likewise for
car/house keys.

I do, they are always in the same place.