From quietening cockerels to translating tattoos, the 'bizarre' tourist requests received by the British 領事の

By Travelmail Reporter

Published: 11:03 BST, 16 May 2013 | Updated: 16:27 BST, 16 May 2013

When you think of British 領事の 援助 overseas, nightmare シナリオs usually come to mind.

But it seems not everyone has the same idea of what 構成するs an 緊急, the Foreign and 連邦／共和国 Office (FCO) has 明らかにする／漏らすd.

Silencing a noisy cockerel and 供給（する）ing Olympic tickets were の中で the more unusual requests made to British 領事の staff abroad last year.

Not やめる an 緊急: Noisy cockerels and tattoos were the 支配する in question for British 領事の staff

In Rome, a man asked 公式の／役人s to translate a phrase for a tattoo he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to have 署名／調印するd.

一方／合間 in Tel Aviv, イスラエル , a woman requested that 領事の staff order her husband to get fit and eat healthily so that they could start a family.

The FCO also said that its staff in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, were asked if they could help 支払う／賃金 to send a couple's children to an international school, while a man in Stockholm asked 公式の／役人s to check the 信任状 of a woman he had met online.

Staff were often asked where the best place to watch football was, the FCO 追加するd. Other requests 含むd "供給するing 接触する 詳細（に述べる）s for Sir Paul McCartney’s wife" and help in 解決するing a £1,000 bet on the colour of the British パスポート.

Between 2012 and 2013, the FCO 扱うd more than a million 領事の 調査s and supported some 52,135 British 国家のs in difficulty abroad.

Online dating 信任状: Staff were asked to check on a woman's background by one man in Sweden (提起する／ポーズをとるd by model)

領事の 事件／事情／状勢s 大臣 示す Simmonds 追加するd: "FCO staff help many thousands of British 国家のs 直面するing serious difficulties around the world every year. We also receive over a million 調査s each year, so it is important that people understand what we can and cannot do to support them when they are abroad.

"We are not in a position to help people make travel 手はず／準備 or social 計画（する）s, but we do help those who 直面する real problems abroad. These can 含む 犠牲者s of 罪，犯罪, （死が）奪い去るd families who have lost a loved one abroad or Britons who have been 逮捕（する）d or 拘留するd."

He 追加するd: "We 目的（とする） to continue to 焦点（を合わせる） on supporting those who really need our help in the coming year."

The FCO 始める，決める up a 接触する centre in Malaga, southern Spain, in February 2011 to 扱う the 容積／容量 of 非，不，無-領事の 調査s received by British 大使館s and 領事館s in southern Europe. Since its 開始する，打ち上げる staff have fielded 131,211 calls, 39 per cent of which have been lifestyle 調査s.

The centre's 長，率いる, Steve Jones, said: "Our 目的（とする） is to help staff at 地位，任命するs concentrate on what is important but some of the 調査s we received from British 国家のs last year were bizarre to say the least.

"For example, one 顧客 接触するd us to ask if we could 供給する the 指名する of the watch that the 王室の 海軍 sailors wore between the years 1942-1955."