There are more than just a few instances when a police clearance certificate is required, ranging from travelling abroad, to applying for employment locally.

A Police Clearance Certificate (PCC) is a very important document, especially if you’re planning on applying for a visa, or applying for a job that requires a clean record. In other words, it proves that you don’t have a criminal record against your name.

The employment world has also changed, with many employers making it policy to request a police clearance certificate from job applicants, which makes it a savvy decision to make sure that you’re in possession of a current PCC before applying for any position, just in case.

When police clearance certificate is required

There are certain cases in which you’ll definitely need a police clearance certificate, but there are other areas, such as applying for a job locally and other areas, that are on the periphery of these rules.

In general, you will need a PCC for:

  • Immigration
  • Studying overseas
  • Working overseas
  • Overseas adoption

In other areas you will need a PCC if you’re going to be:

  • Working with children
  • Working with mentally and physically disabled people
  • Working with elderly frail people
  • Working in the security industry
  • Working in the financial sectors and banking
  • Working in the health sector and hospitals
  • Working for the government…and more

Problems with long waiting periods for PCC’s

The best thing to do today, is to start your application for a police clearance certificate well in advance of when you’ll need it. This is due to a major backlog at the SAPS Criminal Record Centre in Pretoria. 

As at May 2022, the backlog in police clearance certificates and firearm licences had increased to 85 000 from 60 000 in April, which means that, if you go through the normal channels, you could be looking at a waiting period of more than two months for the issue of your PCC.

How to obtain your police clearance certificate much sooner?

If you’re going to apply for your PCC via a police station, it could take weeks for the police station to send your application to the CRC, which simply adds much more time to the waiting period, causing more stress than should be necessary.

There is a much simpler way to do it, with all the frustration taken out of the process, and that’s through the professionals at Doc Assist! 

This team of document procurement specialists based in South Africa, has been helping people to get their police clearance certificates in record time, despite the CRC backlog.

The team at Doc Assist deals with the CRC on a daily basis on behalf of their clients, ensuring that the applications are registered on the SAPS system, since this is where a lot can go wrong, with missing applications.

From your first contact with this friendly team, you’ll feel confident that your application will be in the right hands, and once you’ve provided them with all the information required for your application, you can sit back and relax; they’ll do all the rest on your behalf.

Contact Doc Assist today to find out more about when a PCC is required, and what this team can do to take all the frustration out of the process for you.

 

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