The waiting times to get a time to renew your passport have decreased during the summer, but now the police have instead had other problems, the passport supplier in Finland does not have time for production.
At the same time, hundreds of thousands of passports are waiting to be picked up.
– It is the case that you do not collect your passports. We now hope that, as soon as possible, they get their passports, says the police’s national commander Per Engström.
The fact that the passports remain means problems for the police.
– It is a document of value, so we must store these in a safe way and our storage is no longer enough.
More about what the pass chaos means, in the player above.