Police clearance certificates now in 4–5 days through online system

An ePolice Certificate system has been developed by the Information & Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) for the Sri Lanka Police in the issuance of Police Clearance Certificates (PCC) online to provide a faster services to applicants.

This system was officially launched recently at a ceremony graced by the Inspector General of Police, Pujith Jayasundara accompanied by several other Senior DIGs, as well as Dr. Ajith  Madurapperuma, Deputy Chairman from ICTA along with other senior  officials, according to an ICTA media release.

Currently, the Police Clearance Branch receives approximately 150 applications per day from locals and nearly 300 weekly from Sri Lankans living abroad, while nearly 600 applications come in per day merely from locals residents.

The deployment of the application for the Clearance Branch, as the first phase of the project, was implemented in 2016. Consequently, as of now, within the Clearance Branch, the internal systems have been fully automated including application processing, monitoring and tracking in order to ensure that applications are responded to with efficacy. In addition to that, reporting functions and audit trails are also in place to ensure accountability. Communication with and among 477 police stations located across the country and other agencies has likewise been automated, so that no more lagging takes place when sharing information. The end result is that the processing time has been brought down to 4-5 working days from 15 working days, ICTA said.

With the launch of the Online Application Submission Service as the second phase of this particular project, applicants, irrespective of the fact of whether they are locals or locals living abroad, can now submit their applications online, while paying the administration fee online using either their credit cards or mobile payments. Further, citizens have also been facilitated to check the current status of the submitted applications online as well.The Police Clearance Certificate online service is available via following websites of the Sri Lanka Police Official, namely www.police.lk and the Sri Lanka Government official web portal www.gov.lk.