It's to help smoothly operate new checkpoints monitoring essential travel for work.
Gardai in the Midlands are asking businesses to issue identification to employees as soon as possible.
New patrols and checkpoints are being set up across the region following new measures restricting movement to essential travel by the Taoiseach.
Drivers being stopped are required to produce papers from their employer to show their journey is necessary for work in an approved service.
Superintendent in Portlaoise Anthony Petit says they're seeing a high level of compliance so far:
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