What was supposed to be a small revolution to simplify the procedure for applying for a passport has turned into the worst example of how slow and inefficient the state machine can be for a few months.
Up until a few months ago, to request a passport, it was enough simply to go to the nearest police station or police station, fill in a form, hand in a passport photo with a paid payment slip and cash on delivery, then wait fifteen days to have the document in your hands. Now to get it you have to go through a platform through which to make an appointment at the police station. A procedure very similar to that for booking anti Covid-19 vaccines and, potentially, an efficient organizational procedure.
Too bad that the new digital reality is characterized by unacceptable expectations and a perverse mechanism whereby anyone in Gallura who wanted to make an appointment would be unable to do so close to home . On the Police platform, in fact, only the Sassari Police Headquarters and the Alghero Police Station are available for bookings on an ongoing basis. It also happens that the sporadic dates assigned to the Gallura commissariats are "stolen" in a few minutes by those who live elsewhere, thus starting a series of movements from one part of the island to another.
Not only. To make the situation borderline acceptable, there are timings that are difficult to reconcile with those of those who would like to travel in the short to medium term. Goodbye to the exotic Christmas holidays then. To date, the first available dates in Sassari are for the end of January, but this is nothing compared to the even more catastrophic situation in Cagliari and in general in the south of the island, where the first available appointment would be set at the Police Headquarters for 25 May and at the Commissariat of Iglesias on May 31st or June 1st . Many, too many long months of intolerable waiting.