{"id":456,"date":"2011-04-26T08:32:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T08:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moneylaunderingcompliance.com\/?p=456"},"modified":"2011-04-26T08:32:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T08:32:15","slug":"26-04-11-thousands-of-uk-passports-thrown-out-with-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moneylaunderingcompliance.com\/index.php\/general-news\/26-04-11-thousands-of-uk-passports-thrown-out-with-rubbish","title":{"rendered":"26.04.11 Thousands of UK passports ‘thrown out with rubbish’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UK Passport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some 10,000 passports a year are probably thrown in bins, says the UK’s Identity and Passport Service (IPS).\u00a0 Launching a campaign urging people to keep passports safe, it warns the same number are lost in bars and clubs.<\/p>\n

The IPS said it had had reports of passports being stolen at gunpoint in Brazil, lost in jail, and left in the pocket of a coat donated to a tramp.<\/p>\n

The IPS based its findings on analysis of applications for replacement passports, which cost \u00a377.50.<\/p>\n

Men replace more than 162,500 lost and stolen passports a year compared with about 112,000 by women, the IPS says.\u00a0Of all the lost and stolen passports in the UK, people in their 20s were responsible for 42.8% of the total – more than twice as many as the next nearest age group.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lost and stolen by age<\/p>\n

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  • Teenagers – 6.3%<\/li>\n
  • 20s – 42.8%<\/li>\n
  • 30s – 20.8%<\/li>\n
  • 40s – 12.8%<\/li>\n
  • 50s – 10.2%<\/li>\n
  • 60s – 5.3%<\/li>\n
  • 70s – 1.6%<\/li>\n
  • 80s – 0.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Those in their 30s lost 20.8% followed by people in their 40s, who lost 12.8%.<\/p>\n

    IPS chief executive Sarah Rapson warned that passports were becoming increasingly attractive to criminal gangs wanting to steal identities.<\/p>\n

    She said: “It’s really important that you keep it safe both when you are at home and when you’re abroad. “Remember to put your passport away after use. Don’t leave it in a trouser or shirt pocket in the laundry pile.”<\/p>\n

    Some of the colourful reasons given for why people were parted from their passports include:<\/p>\n

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    • Taxi attacked by gunman on way to airport in Brazil<\/li>\n
    • Fell out of bag while snowboarding<\/li>\n
    • Drunk boyfriend (now ex) destroyed it<\/li>\n
    • Last seen in pocket of a coat donated to tramp<\/li>\n
    • Wallet stolen at children’s party with passport inside<\/li>\n
    • Passports stored in safe in Turkish villa, thieves stole safe<\/li>\n
    • Put in bin by infant daughter; and<\/li>\n
    • Put on a fire with clothes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      The service advised people to keep their passport in a place they can remember and to only carry it when absolutely necessary.<\/p>\n

      It said people should use alternatives if they needed to prove their age and should keep a note of the number to help speed up the issuing of replacements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Some 10,000 passports a year are probably thrown in bins, says the UK’s Identity and Passport Service (IPS). Launching a campaign urging people to keep passports safe, it warns the same number are lost in bars and clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,14,38],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","tag-client-verification","tag-customer-due-diligence","tag-uk-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moneylaunderingcompliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moneylaunderingcompliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moneylaunderingcompliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneylaunderingcompliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneylaunderingcompliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneylaunderingcompliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneylaunderingcompliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moneylaunderingcompliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneylaunderingcompliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneylaunderingcompliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}