No one has been able to escape the chaos with the long waiting times to get a passport. The waiting time is currently an average of 21.7 weeks according to the police websitean almost scientifically accurate task.
Hundreds have made JO reports and the media reports on the problem. But for those who need a passport, this attention does not help much as no change takes place.
Here people show however, test of fantastic disposition and helpfulness and take matters into their own hands. Some send their 18-year-olds on a flight from Stockholm to Kiruna where a free time has appeared, others drive around the country and the kingdom.
Others queue outside the police to get a temporary passport. If it does not work out on the first visit, a new attempt is made the next day.
It’s first come, first served, but the atmosphere in the pass queue is fantastic. Despite the fact that everyone is a competitor, I have experienced that people are helpful and genuinely happy for those who actually get their passport that day. There is applause and cheers.
Precis som i In all crisis situations, many smart solutions emerge, and tips are shared on how to best cope with the situation. Clothes can be calculated according to the weather. But the following tips may be helpful:
1. A “brass chair” so that you do not have to get up hour after hour.
2. Two powerbanks for the mobile.
3. A newly won pair horse. After a few hours, you will need to use one of the two bajamajor lined up some distance away, and then it is good to have someone who can fit your place before the police open.
This sounds like GDR 1974, but it’s Sweden 2022.
But there is times. If you have access to a computer and can afford an app for SEK 20, you can download a script that handles the booking for you. It takes a few minutes before you have a passport time in Stockholm the next day. It works thanks to a caring and talented computer guy in Skåne. It took him eight hours to write the code, and he has saved many Swedes’ holiday trips and the police’s reputation a thousand times over.
Moderate leader Ulf Kristersson and former national police chief Bengt Svensson (M) made party politics out of the passport chaos in a debate article in Expressen on 21 May. The solution is apparently to move passport management to the Swedish Tax Agency so that the police can prioritize crime. As if there was a connection between them. You are amazed.
Passport management is not rocket science and the root cause of failure with a task that is simple is never a lack of skills, priorities or which organization the task belongs to. It is only about the view of responsibility and leadership.
To let the IRS take over passport management as the above-mentioned moderates want will not solve the leadership and view of responsibility within the police. When you do not have a leadership that can handle such a simple task, how should you be able to solve crimes? If politicians do not understand that the police have a problem with leadership and responsibility, they will never be able to fix the crime either.