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Local police and military don't know this and so having it spelled out can only help.
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If they opened the passport and looked inside it they would be able to tell pretty quickly as it says EU in many different languages. I don't buy the silly sticker argument, what happens when it peels of, or as is often the case when the airport stick a security check sticker over the EU one?
I doubt the police in many countries especially Commonwealth countries give a toss if it has an EU sticker on it anyway, they can tell a British passport pretty quickly.
Absolute waste of time and no doubt money.
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In fact I've spent much of the last 40 years working outside of Britain, and from time to time in some pretty far flung parts of the world at that.
Thankfully those days are in the past. It soon stops being fun.
On the occasions when I've had cause to call on our overseas embassies, especially in the last 20 years, I've found them to be staffed by an incompetent shower of time serving chinless wonders who didn't give much of a stuff for anything that interrupted their cushy life.
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This still does not prove that the British consulates are any worst then the German or French or Romanian etc. My wifes experience of the consulate in New York was one of professionalism for example.
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