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Sri Lanka Police in line with its 150th anniversary, which falls this year, launched its first ever e-service yesterday by introducing a facility to obtain Police Clearance Certificates online as a solution to the age old manual processing method.

At a special event held at the Police Headquarters in Colombo, Police Chief Pujith Jayasundara launched the new web based service for obtaining clearance certificates online.

The special project incorporated with ICTA (Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka) was introduced targeting both the citizens residing in locally and overseas, who require police clearance certificates for various purposes including for jobs.

The Inspector General flanked by many top ranking officials yesterday boasted how they succeeded in bring the concept of this service drafted in 2013 to a realty giving a remedial measure for the time consuming hassle of obtaining a clearance certificate.

The previous manual process of issuing a clearance certificate required an applicant to appear in person to the Police Headquarters (if the person is locally residing) and fill an application form with personal details and submit it with the required fee.

If someone from overseas is applying, he or she has to submit an appropriately filled application form to the Sri Lankan mission in the respective country of stay with the correct fee as well as certain additional bank charges for remitting the money.

This old method took at least 14 to 21 days to process as it involved lot of paper based applications and documents which had to be cross checked with many agencies with the Department like the CID and the TID.

But with the new e-service anybody who has access to the internet can apply for a clearance certificate even using a smart phone in no time and complete the submission by paying the fee with a credit or debit card as wells as through ‘eZ Cash’ method. It will take only four to five days, the Police Chief assured.

Representing the ICTA, its official Kanchana Thudugala said it took close to an year to complete the project and that they had linked all the 477 Police Stations countrywide to enable this service to transfer data.

A private software company PWC had assisted in designing the new online clearance certificate.

Application for the online clearance certificate could be accessed through the two URLs www.police.lk and www.gov.lk.(By Kurulu Koojana Kariyakarawana and Darshana Sanjeewa)


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  • annoyed Wednesday, 08 March 2017 09:15 AM

    Excellent work and wish to see more of such from all GOSL departments.

    Sunil Wednesday, 08 March 2017 10:16 AM

    I remember very well the hassle I had to undergo when obtaining a clearance certificate 15 (fifteen) years ago.This is certainly a very welcome move by the Police Department. Many state institutions have now entered the digital age giving a lot of relief to the general public. Please continue the good work.

    Yehiya Wednesday, 08 March 2017 10:24 AM

    IGP made the history. All the university IT faculties

    sobers Wednesday, 08 March 2017 01:50 PM

    Congratulations, good job!

    Percy fernando Wednesday, 08 March 2017 11:22 PM

    The decision is great,but unfortunately my Police clearance certificate still pending, for three months has been passed,I did not receive my clearance. Police now say withing 21 days they will produce the certificate,what a disgrace I do not want to go abroad,but to find a job in Sri Lanka police was unable to give my clearance. katana Police is the weakest police station in Administration.This is for your reference I G P

    subajini balachandran Thursday, 09 March 2017 12:37 AM

    excelant good job

    JD Thursday, 09 March 2017 03:29 AM

    Great work Police. You are setting an example to the rest of the public service organizations.

    melda Thursday, 09 March 2017 08:03 AM

    good move...but the police website still not updated with the links. still has the old procedures. via DM Android App

    kathy Thursday, 09 March 2017 09:30 AM

    PWC


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