Application
for Police Clearance Certificate Introduction
/ Procedures / Forms
Introduction
South
Africans that work, travel and reside abroad require Police Clearance Certificates
for purposes such as court requirements, residence permission or securing employment.
The
application for a police clearance certificate is a personal matter that the applicant
must attend to. Note:
The South African Police Services is
planning to outsource services for the police clearance certificates. South African
Representatives abroad will be informed of any new procedures in due course. Until
such time, the guidelines as per this chapter should be followed.
Procedures
1.
Customers must forward applications/requests directly to the Criminal Record Centre
in Pretoria. 2. If forwarded from abroad, the application may be forwarded
via any reputable
courier company. The courier company must be PREPAID to
collect the documents from the Criminal Record Centre and return the documents
to the sender. 3. It is important to find out whether the requesting authority
would need the police clearance certificate to be legalised.
It will save time and money to submit the certificate to the Legalisation Section
at the Department of Foreign
Affairs before it is returned to the applicant. Customers must specify this
in their application to the Criminal Record Centre. 4. There is no specific
application form but attached please find a form designed by the Department
of Foreign Affairs for this purpose. The following details are required: a)
Surname
b) Maiden name (if applicable, also specify in which surname the certificate
should
to be issued).
c) Given names
d) Date of birth
e) Place of birth
f)
South African ID number (if applicable)
g) Last residential address in South
Africa
h) Last SA business / employer's address
i) Telephone number of the
above (h)
j) Date
k) Signature
l) Mailing address in the country of application
m)
Zip/Postal Code
n) Telephone number 5. An application is made by sending
the above information, together with a full set of fingerprints, to the Criminal
Record Centre. Fingerprints are done by your closest Police Station or nearest
South African Representative, if you are abroad. 6. The application has
to be accompanied by: - A fee of R59.00 (either a South African cheque,
banker's draft or money order, made payable to the South African Police Service,
is acceptable).
- A self-addressed and franked envelope if you
want the application to be returned to you by post.
7. The application,
fingerprints and fee, should be forwarded to: Inspector Delport or Sgt.
Bunk
Criminal Record Center - SAPS
1st Floor, Sanlam Plaza West
271 Schoeman
Street
Pretoria 0001
Rep of South Africa Tel. No's. (012) 393-3712/13/14/15
Fax
No. (012) 393-3909. 8. Office hours are from 07.30 to 16.00 (Monday to Friday). 9.
It takes 28 working days to issue a certificate.
Forms
Annex
23B form (.doc)
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