Police Clearance Certificate, SACE, Expungement or Presidential Pardons – South Africa
Do you need a South African Police Clearance Certificate, Expungement or Presidential Pardon to prove the absence of a criminal record or to fix your criminal record status? Police Clearance Certificates
We can assist in the process and documents needed to obtain a South African Police Clearance Certificate. Y
ou do not even have to leave your office. We can take your fingerprints and will do the rest. If you are abroad and need assistance we can assist. Please contact us. We will need a quality copy of your ID or passport. We will do the rest. We take all applications in by hand to the various departments. You don’t have to get frustrated by the system. What happens when we receive your application for Police Clearance, Expungement or Presidential Pardon? On receipt of the application for a Police Clearance Certificate we will lodge the application at the Criminal Record Centre (CRC) of the South African Police Service (SAPS) in Pretoria for processing. We will also do all the payments. We visit the CRC on a regularly basis to lodge, collect and follow up on the issue of Police Clearance Certificates. On issue of the Police Clearance certificate one of our staff collect it over the counter. The certificate is checked for correctness, scanned and emailed to the client. We will then courier the original to you wherever you want it. How long does the issue of the certificate take? There is a minimum lead time of about 15 to 20 working days. If the applicant has a prior conviction the application can take longer. Police Clearance Certificates, Expungements and Presidential Pardons all have its timelines etc. Lead times are estimates and not guaranteed. Can I track the progress of your certificate or applications? Yes, we can track and follow up on all the different applications. Expungements
The criteria for expungement are as follow:
1. The conviction must be older than 10 years.
2. The offence must have been of a minor offence or a politically motivated crime.
3. The applicant must have either paid a fine (fine paid must not exceed R20 000.00), received a suspended sentence or have been sentenced to community service.
4. The conviction must not have resulted in mandatory jail time (this does not include time spent following initial arrest and time spent awaiting trial). Please find our requirements and information below,
If a person qualifies for expungement, we can assist in having the record removed. This means that the record will be expunged from the Criminal Record Centre and resulting in a clear name when criminal record searches are done. Prescribe process will be completed by us and submitted with the application. After completion, all documentation, 2 x full sets of your fingerprints and 2 x certified copies of your ID document must be handed to us. After we received your payment, we will submit your original fingerprints to the Police Criminal Record Centre. After receiving the Police Clearance Certificate from SAPS CRC (this will be within 6 to 8 weeks from date fingerprints were submitted to CRC), the application for the expungement will be submitted to the Department of Justice for processing (this will take approximately 6 months). After completion of the application, the Department of Justice will forward the application to the Police CRC to clear your name which will take 21 days. As soon as we receive the relevant documentation from the Police CRC, we will apply for a new Police Clearance Certificate (this will take 3-4 weeks). A Police Clearance Certificate, stated that you have no previous convictions will then be issued. We will apply for the second Police Clearance Certificate and as soon as we received the Police Clearance Certificate we will forward it to you immediately after receiving it from the SAPS CRC. Please note that we cannot be held responsible if you do not qualify for expungement. This process can take up to 12 months. We will advise you immediately if your application qualifies for expungement or if we need to apply for a Presidential Pardon. All requests will be handle with confidentiality. I can be contacted via email: [email protected]
Marieta Krüger
