The commitment for the passport reception in Växjö is to be able to produce 91 passports a day.
Today, between 95 and 100 are manufactured, ie more than what the business is required to do.
But to solve the chaos, that number would need to be multiplied.
An alternative that is being discussed is to hire more people, and to increase the reception hours' opening hours.
But just hiring people would not work, says Rickard Bowin.
- With us, we have three passport stations, and they can together produce three passes every ten minutes, even if we were to hire a lot of people, they would still not be able to produce more passes.
"There are ready-made proposals"
On the other hand, extended opening hours would help, and this is the solution that is currently being considered.
According to Rickard Bowin, the possibilities are seen both regionally and locally, and a decision is around the corner.
- There are ready-made proposals that are just waiting for a signature, and I can not see that it would not be done relatively soon, before the summer, says Rickard Bowin.
- It will not dissolve everything but it will ease the pressure, and the pressure now can not be described, we had a family who drove to Haparanda to get a passport.
"Could have been predicted"
Behind the prevailing passport chaos is the corona pandemic, which has been built on the queues for two years.
The question is whether the police authority could not have assumed that this would happen.
According to Rickard Bowin, it should have worked, but at the same time he does not see how the problem could have been avoided.
- It would have been quite predictable, but it would still have been difficult to take it into account given our technical conditions.