Getting a QLD Police Check is easy with Worker Checks!

Simply apply online for your QLD Police Check by clicking here.

See more about Worker Checks online police check process here

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Workerchecks offer our clients a completely online application form, with a process that significantly reduces your time and effort obtaining a Police Check in Queensland.  Our online form is designed to help applicants complete and submit their entire application form in a single sitting in a matter of minutes. When you submit your application during business hours you will typically receive your national police certificate emailed back to you within as little as an hour. 

In roughly 30% of cases, the central government database may flag your national police clearance for a ‘manual review’. When this happens, an official must sight your criminal background check before it can be released. Generally, this delay requires 1 to 15 business for your results to be released. Unfortunately, we are unable to know ahead of time whether your application will be flagged, so should this happen,

More and more organisations are requesting that individuals provide them with a current national police check or a QLD police check before they join a volunteer organisation or given an official offer of employment. Providing your Australian police check helps Australian businesses and volunteer organisations to keep their environments and services safe for all Australians to participate in.

If you have been asked to provide a copy of your criminal record check then you have a couple of ways of obtaining your national clearance certificate. Individual applicants are not able to submit their own application directly to the government for processing so they must complete and submit their forms to either their local QLD police station or a government accredited agency, like Worker Checks. We can not only accept and submit your application for a Queensland police check, we put it at the head of the processing queue with typical turnaround times of just one hour. When you choose a paper-based form, you could be waiting weeks for your certificate to be processed and returned to you via post. When you choose Workerchecks, you typically have your certificate within an hour.

There are a couple of different types of police checks. For example, you are not able to submit an Australian Federal Police (AFP) check with the QLD police. A national police check for visa applications must be submitted directly to the AFP. If you are unsure which type of record check you need to apply for, please ask the authority requesting a copy of your clearance for more information.

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

There is no set period of validity for your police check QLD  but whichever authority has requested you provide one will have a compliance period so it’s best to check with them whether your current police check is still valid or whether you will need to apply for a more recent Australian police check.

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

Your Worker Checks National Police Check certificate or QLD police check  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.

Your QLD police check is an up to the minute document which does not expire; however, some employers will require a police check from Queensland 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.

Your police check result will be kept on our Secure blockchain and available in your personal portal for 12 months from issuing.

During this period you can share your certificate (see how to share your police check here-->)  or print a copy at any time.

After that, your police check certificate will be removed and will no longer be available for printing or sharing.

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 or QLD 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.

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.

Before you apply for a police check, you’ll need to have 4 types of identification from the list below. Your name and date of birth across your identity documents need to match what you’ve put on your application and all documents must be originals, not copies. 

You must provide 4 ID documents in total from the table below list contained in this link -->

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All of your ID documents must not be expired. 

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.