There are a few ways an individual can apply for and receive their police check NT. Workerchecks offer you the fastest and hassle free option.

A police clearance certificate is a government issued national criminal history check. You may be asked to provide this if you have applied for an aged care facility role. When applicants are asked to provide their police check NT, they may have been given a paper-based Northern Territory application form. If you have received this, then it must be returned to your local police station for processing. The waiting times for paper-based processing can stretch into weeks. This can include time for your application to be received, processed, and mailed back to you.

Workerchecks offer a 100% online application process with all your documents verified online.

Your police check NT is a national police clearance. This means that applications for a Australian police check will include information gathered from all criminal records across Australia, regardless of the state that you are applying for your clearance in.

A police check NT issued by Workerchecks is actually a national police check which extends to all states and territories.

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Workerchecks will typically return your results within the hour.  If your application for a national police checks if flagged for review by a state police force, the may be a delay between 1 -15 days for the final results of your Police Check NT to be issued.

If applicants choose the paper-based form, a criminal record check can likely take weeks to be received, processed and returned via post. When you choose Workerchecks, then your police clearance could be completed and returned to you in as little as one hour.

The cost of a police check NT for a standard application is $40. Significantly cheaper than other providers with a higher level of service.

Get your police check NT completed online in just a matter of minutes with Workerchecks. Start your application now and submit it in a single online sitting.

Your Northern Territory police check is an up to the minute document which does not expire; however, some employers will require a police check from the NT that has been issued within a certain time frame

Yes  – from your personal Worker Checks portal!

If you apply for a Worker Checks National Police Check while overseas you’ll need to be able to receive SMS messages on your mobile phone to verify your personal account on initial application.

You can print out your police check from you r worker checks personal portal.  Our printed certificates contain an easy to use validation feature – which allows any printed certificate to be checked against the issued certificate record (securely stored on the workers checks secure blockchain). See more about validating a printed certificate here -->

Before you apply for an Worker Checks National Police Check while overseas, ask the organisation requesting the check if this meets their requirements. You may need an Australian Federal Police (AFP) Check instead.

Of course!  Simply re-print the certificate from your personal Worker Checks online portal.

Our police check certificates contain a validation feature.

Please note: Your worker Checks police check will be removed from our secure blockchain storage after 12 months. After this time, we will not be able to retrieve your police check result and will need to renew your online police check.

Worker Checks process payments online through Stripe.

Your Worker Checks National Police Check certificate will include the following personal information:

• All names you have been known by
• Address
• Date of birth
• Any releasable court outcomes and criminal history (including pending charges) relevant to the purpose of the police check.

If you’re known by a single name (also called a mononym), you can apply for your police check online with Worker Checks. You’ll be prompted to follow the steps when you get to the relevant part in the online police check application.

It’s your responsibility to ensure that the information provided to us on your Worker Checks National Police Check application is correct. So, before you submit your application online, make sure your information is correct and up to date.

Before submitting your application, check:

• all your names (given name, surname / family name, middle name) and specify if you’re known by any other names
• your date of birth
• spelling
• all your ID document details are correct, including document numbers
• your contact details
• all your information is as it appears on your ID documents.

Correcting your certificate

Once the police check has been initiated we’re not able to edit your application or provide a refund.

If you receive your police check certificate and you notice that any of the details are incorrect, you’ll need to apply again to have a correct certificate issued.

If you paid for your police check yourself:

• Apply and pay for a new check. You can do this online using your existing login information for your Worker Checks personal portal.
  

If an organisation paid for your police check:

• Contact the organisation and inform them you require a new invitation to conduct a police chck
  
• The organisation requesting the check to will send you a new link.

Worker Checks will not provide refunds for any police check applications where incorrect information is provided by the customer.