Sharing national policing information for a safer community
All organisations wishing to access the National Police Checking Service(NPCS) through CrimTrac must undergo an accreditation process which currently takes between 7 – 8 months to complete.
Organisations that conduct 500 or more police history checks within a three-year period are eligible to apply for accredited agency status.
CrimTrac delivers the NPCS for and on behalf of its partner organisations within the Australian police agencies to third-party agencies (Federal/State/Territory government agencies and non-government entities) that meet the accreditation criteria as determined by the partnership.
CrimTrac facilitates the release of national police history information to its accredited agencies by providing them with access to the NPCS Support System (NSS). Australian police agencies undertake the vetting and release of the national police history information and not CrimTrac.
CrimTrac maintains a central index that identifies whether a particular individual is recorded in the relevant police records of any jurisdiction as a person of interest. Consequently, all national police history checks are processed by CrimTrac (whether you use a Police Agency or a CrimTrac-accredited "broker" agency ("broker")).CrimTrac provides accredited agencies with limited access to the NSS, to enable them to:
All check requests submitted will be automatically run against a central index of names of persons of interest to police agencies and initial results will be returned in minutes (depending on the traffic flow through the system).
Approximately 75% of the names submitted will typically generate a "No Disclosable Court Outcomes" result. Approximately 25% of names will have an “Open” Status and will require further processing by the relevant police agencies (this can take up to 10 working days).
The results will be available to your agency via the NSS once the check has been finalised.
There is no cost involved in becoming an accredited agency.
Once accredited, CrimTrac invoices agencies on a monthly basis for any check requests that were submitted for that period. If an agency does not submit any check requests for a particular month, the agency will not receive an invoice for that month.
If you would like to proceed with the accreditation process, please complete the online information form to enable us to tailor an application package to suit your needs.
Once an organisation has submitted the completed information form, a CrimTrac staff member from the National Police Checking Services team will contact the organisation and provide relevant documentation to allow the accreditation to proceed.