Police Clearance Certificates

All the Police Stations in South Africa was informed that this is now an outsourced function.

Often people are referred to my from SAPS to assist with urgent applications. This is one of the services I deliver for my clients. Often the paperwork will be courier to me and I will do the rest.

The prices for this service differ. Please contact me for a price.

Alternatively email me.

Marieta Kruger 0825225439

WHAT ARE MY OPTIONS AND
WHAT WILL IT COST ME?.....

OPTION 1. – AFISCLEAR Fingerprint Scan.
Call AFISCLEAR to scan my applicants/employees
fingerprints at my office /premises. Receive results
within 48 hours ( callout fee applicable, maximum
50kms).
OPTION 2.- Client Fingerprint Scan.
Rent my own workstation/s and scan my own
applicants/employees.

SERVICE LIST 2008


Criminal Record Checks (Fingerprints).

Specific Polygraph Examination.

Forensic Assessment.

Fingerprint Investigation.

Investigation of Exhibits.

Handwriting Analysis.

DNA Analysis.

Crime Scene Investigation.

Fingerprint Development.

Testifying CCMA / Court / Internal Hearing.

Criminal Name Check.

Credit Check (ITC/Experian).

Drivers Licence Verification.

PDP Verification.

ID Validation.

Clearance Certificate.

Profiling (Detailed).

All fees for example maintenance etc are included in the initial or monthly rental
fee.

The complete system (scanner, PC/notebook, software etc.) will be installed by
AFISCLEAR (conditions apply).

Training the system operators will be provided by AFISCLEAR.

Training of employees for rolled fingerprints (Hard-Copy)is available from
Fingerprint Experts

AFISCLEAR is a BEE Micro Certified Company.

POLICE CLEARANCE RESULTS WITHIN
2 WORKING DAYS


As a Registered Service Provider AFISCLEAR offers a fast and effective
service with regards to scanning and searching fingerprints to supply a Police
Clearance.

You can check your own Criminal Record results.

Check the status of your employees or prospective employees.
POLICE CLEARANCE RESULTS WITHIN
2 WORKING DAYS.

The service is provided by means of live scanning of the fingerprint with the
results available within 48hours.

The scanning is conducted at your office/premises. This system eradicates all
unnecessary paperwork and allows for a fast efficient service .

Hard-copy fingerprint can be delivered at our offices – or can be picked up
from your offices/premises at an additional travelling cost.

The equipment needed to conduct the searches is portable, and can
therefore be used at any of our sites ( conditions apply).

FINGERPRINT SCAN

Fingerprint is a unique feature to an individual. It stays with a person throughout
his or her life.
This makes the fingerprint the most reliable kind of personal identification
because it cannot be forgotten, misplaced, or stolen. Fingerprint authorization is
potentially the most affordable and convenient method of verifying a person’s
identity.
The lines that create a fingerprint pattern are called ridges and the spaces
between the ridges are called valleys. Its is through the pattern of these ridges
and valleys that a unique fingerprint is matched for verification and authorization.

WHITE PAPER ON SCREENING

Cliffe Dekker then notes that in terms of the King Report, a company’s board is
responsible for ensuring that the company has implemented an effective ongoing
process to identify risk, measure its potential impact against a set of
assumptions, and then activate what it believes is necessary to proactively
manage these risks.
The board should therefore decide on what risk that company is prepared to take
and what risks it will not take in pursuance of its goals and objectives. Further,
risk assessment should address the company's exposure to, among other risks,
those in the form of human resources risks.

Protecting the Hirer

In South Africa, staff employment is controlled by the Basic Conditions of
Employment Act7.
Since employers are legally responsible for ensuring the safety of their
workplace, they obviously want to know who they are hiring. This is one of the
reasons behind the upswing in demand for criminal record and credit checks.
Accordingly the Act permits potential employers to ask applicants if they have
criminal records and request details if the answer is yes. However, any decision
not to employ the candidate has to be related to the conviction.
In other words, the conviction must show that the person would constitute a
threat to the company. The law does not however allow prospective employers to
enquire about arrests that did not result in convictions and it also does not permit
questions on pending cases since in South Africa a person is presumed innocent
until proven guilty.

Fingerprint is a unique feature to an individual. It stays with a person throughout his or her life.
This makes the fingerprint the most reliable kind of personal identification because it cannot be forgotten, misplaced, or stolen. Fingerprint authorization is potentially the most affordable and convenient method of verifying a person's identity.
The lines that create a fingerprint pattern are called ridges and the spaces between the ridges are called valleys. It is through the pattern of these ridges and valleys that a unique fingerprint is matched for verification and authorization.
The fingerprint pattern is captured by fingerprint sensors. Fingerprint sensors work by taking a snapshot of a fingerprint and saving it into an image file. From the image, fingerprint recognition algorithm extracts unique features of each fingerprint and saves them in the database. For fingerprint verification, features of an input fingerprint are compared to the features of a specific fingerprint data in the database.
By comparing similarity between two feature sets, it is decided whether the two fingerprints match or not.

Input fingerprint images captured from the sensors are noisy, in poor contrast, containing much flaw and smudge. Based on intensive analysis of the image characteristics, powerful image enhancement technique is developed, yielding high quality ridge image. Moreover, a lot of erroneous features are efficiently removed by noisy area reduction technique.

AFISwitch allows criminal background checking by the commercial sector and it is surprisingly fast.

Provided they had consent from the person whose record was being checked, the South African Police Service has always supplied details of criminal records to the public. The service was commonly used by employers doing pre-employment checks and on-the-job risk management; and as a result of certain legal requirements such as those placed on applicants for gun licences and professional driving permits.

A criminal record check is also part of the requirements for obtaining a travel visa for certain countries - you need a police clearance certificate to accompany your application for such visas.

In the past, the police ran the checks manually. To obtain details of a criminal record, it was necessary to go to a police station where fingerprints were taken with ink on paper. This record was then sent to the Criminal Record Centre in Pretoria for manual checking against their files. The whole process could take from a few weeks to a few months. Since this was not a core function of policing, new applications joined the queue and were, understandably, not prioritised by the police. And woe betide the poor person who needed an emergency visa...

Such a labour intensive and time-consuming process was hardly conducive to producing fast results. This in turn created difficulties if, for example, a security company wanted to recruit a new employee: both parties had to wait a few weeks or months for the results.

In September 2002, with the commissioning of the SAPS Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), a semi-automated system was introduced. This enabled processing of certain commercial searches at 35 sites across South Africa, but excluded applications for firearms, professional driving permits and PSIRA (Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority).

In October 2006, a 15-year contract was awarded by SAPS to Ideco Group for an automated service. In essence, AFISwitch is an information conduit between SAPS criminal records and the public.

The basic search principles remain the same: consent is required before a search can be initiated; it is still based on 10 fingerprints; and results must be made available to the individual in question.

The major difference is how AFISwitch conducts searches. The process begins with electronic capture of each fingerprint using Sagem MorphoSmart fingerprint scanners, interfaced with AFISwitch laptop workstations.

Identity data is then associated with the fingerprints and the entire file is uploaded by secure Internet connection to the AFISwitch server. From here, the file is transmitted directly to the SAPS AFIS, which also operates on Sagem technology and contains some 6 million digital fingerprint records.

SAPS AFIS then runs an automated matching search, returning either a 'no-hit' or 'hit' result to AFISwitch.

In the case of a 'no-hit' result, AFISwitch returns a 'No Illicit Activity Identified' report to the applicant: end of process.

For 'hit' results, AFISwitch returns a 'Possible Illicit Activity Identified' report and asks if the applicant wants more information. If this is required, SAPS processes an AFISwitch hardcopy report for return to the applicant.



Speed is the key

Within 48 hours, 'hit' and 'no-hit' results are returned to applicants. This is the maximum processing time as stipulated in the Service Level Agreement between SAPS and Ideco.

With speed comes convenience. For example, there is no longer any need to go to a police station and employers can run the entire process from their offices using equipment supplied by Ideco.

Speed also delivers efficiency. If a criminal background check is required for employment, AFISwitch dramatically accelerates the recruitment process. This delivers obvious benefits to both employers and prospective employees.



Is Big Brother watching you even more closely?

Not with AFISwitch. A check can only be run on you if you have given your consent in writing. In accordance with the AFISwitch Agreement, service providers must ensure that they have a signed consent form for each commercial search. A permanent record of all consent forms has to be securely stored and Ideco has the right to inspect them.

It should also be stressed that, in granting the AFISwitch contract to Ideco, SAPS was meticulous in ensuring the integrity of how information is acquired, processed and distributed. The contract was some three years in its finalisation and extensive pre-testing was carried out with the assistance of organisations such as Nedcor at their head offices and with Eskom at its Koeberg nuclear plant.