The Ghana Police Service has launched a digital platform to enhance effectivity and accessibility within the acquisition of a police report.
The system, which might assist candidates to use for the police clearance certificates on-line by eservices.police.gov.gh, is a serious shift from the normal course of which concerned embassy notifications, making use of in individual, and ready for ten days.
The certificates would assist confirm the absence of legal data and could be necessary for visa candidates and travellers.
The brand new digital platform, which is being piloted in some areas, had elevated effectivity and comfort for candidates and could be rolled out nationwide.
To entry the digital service, candidates should first register with an account on eservices.police.gov.gh’.
As soon as registered, candidates must choose the specified service kind, present their private data, and securely make funds by the official authorities fee platform, Ghana.Gov.
Candidates would then schedule an appointment and go to the designated centre to have their fingerprints digitally scanned, utilizing superior livescan expertise.
This contemporary method would get rid of the standard technique, involving handbook ink fingerprinting utilizing rollers and slabs, which frequently require candidates to journey to police areas.
Earlier than this digital development, there have been some persistent challenges for people residing exterior Accra with delays occurring as a result of processing of purposes that had not been promptly transferred to the central processing unit in Accra.
The handbook scanning of ink fingerprints on paper on the CID Headquarters had additionally contributed to delays and points equivalent to lack of receipts, incorrect spelling of names on receipts, and issue in monitoring utility statuses.