Blank licences and passports stolen

By a Staff Reporter

POLICE are investigating the theft of 2,559 blank driving licences and 850 blank passports.

The licences were stolen sometime during the weekend from the Drivers’ Licence Issue Department in Nicosia. Between 2.50pm on Friday and 7.30am yesterday, thieves raided the department’s offices in Latchia, police said yesterday.

Meanwhile the Nicosia passport office reported that 850 blank Cypriot passports, 100 blank passport pages and an as yet uncounted number of blank election booklet pages had been stolen between last Wednesday and yesterday.

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