Requirement for police clearances
New Zealand clearances
As part of the application process for registration (provisional, subject to confirmation); renewal of practising certificate (full); and application for a Limited Authority to Teach, the New Zealand Teachers Council requires police clearance of all applicants.
If you are living in New Zealand you are required to complete the Consent to Disclosure of Information section of the specific application form. You are also required to obtain a police clearance certificate from any country in which you have lived for periods of 12 months or more other than New Zealand in the last ten years.
Overseas police clearances
If you are an applicant who is not living in New Zealand or who has lived for periods of 12 months or more in any country other than New Zealand in the last ten years you are required to obtain:
The certificate(s) must be current unless you have not returned to that country for 12 months or more since your last police clearance certificate was issued.
Procedures for obtaining clearance vary between countries as does the cost. In most cases an application needs to be completed. Details and forms can generally be obtained from the local embassy for that country. Useful information on police clearances is available on the New Zealand Immigration Service's website. This link to "How to Obtain a Police certificate" may alter due to a restructuring of their web-site. If so, try http://www.immigration.govt.nz/ and search for the above document.
Other useful addresses commonly requested are as follows. Please note that this is updated when we are informed of contact detail changes.
www.migrationint.com.au/office.asp
www.met.police.uk/information
Other contact addresses are as outlined below for the countries shown:
AustraliaApply to Australia Federal Police, Criminal Records, Locked Bag 8550, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. Request a National Police check and ensure you enter Code Number 21 for the purpose of the National Police check. Further information is available from their website: http://www.afp.gov.au/.
Canada
Apply to Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Information & Identification Services, Canadian Criminal Record Information Services, 1200 Vanier Parkway, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0R2. Request Consent for Disclosure of Criminal Record Information based on your full name and date of birth. Further information is available from their website: http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/.
FijiApply to the Officer in Charge, CID, Police Headquarters, Suva, Fiji. Request a police certificate to be forwarded direct to the Teachers Council and provide our postal address: New Zealand Teachers Council, P O Box 5326, Wellington 6145, New Zealand.
Ireland
From outside Ireland:
Chief Superintendant Liaison and Protection Garda Headquarters, Phoenix Park, Dublin 8, Ireland.
From Ireland:
In person to your local Garda station.
Request a police certificate of good character.
Japan
From New Zealand:
Embassy of Japan, P O Box 6340, Wellington, New Zealand
From Tokyo:
Tokyo Public Safety Division, Metropolitan Police Department, 2-1-1, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo.
From elsewhere in Japan:
Your local Prefectural Police Office.
Request a 'No Criminal Record Certificate' (NCRC). 'Police Clearance' (Keisatsu Shomeisho, Hanzai Keirei Shomeisho or Muchanzai Shomeisho)
Singapore
From Singapore:
Apply in person to: CNCC Office, Police Cantonment Complex, Blk D#02-01A, 391 New Bridge Road, Singapore 088762.
From New Zealand:
Singapore High Commission, 17 Kabul Street, Khandallah, Wellingtonn, New Zealand.
Request a Certificate of No Criminal Conviction (CNCC). Further information is available on their website: www.spf.gov.sg/epc/cert_issued.htm
South AfricaApply to The Commissioner, Criminal Bureau, Security Branch, South African Police, Private Bag 308, Pretoria, 0001, Republic of South Africa. Request a police certificate.
UK & Northern Ireland
1) You can apply to MPS Public Access Office, 20th Floor, Empress State Building, Empress Approach, Lillie Road, London, SW6 1TR. Request a Form 3019 and more information is available from their website: www.met.police.uk/information.
OR
2) For Immigration Purposes only you can apply to the Association of Chief Police Officers, ACRO, P O Box 481, Fareham, PO14 9FS, UK. Request a police certificate and more information is available from their website: http://www.acpo.police.uk/.
OR
3) You can apply to Disclosure Scotland, P O Box 250, Glasgow, G51 1YU. Request a basic, or standard or enhanced disclosure. More information is available on their website: http://www.disclosurescotland.co.uk/.
USA: Apply for a FBI identification record to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Attn: Identification Division, 1000 Hollow Custer Road, Clarksburgh, West Virginia 26306, USA.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong police authorities require a letter of confirmation from the New Zealand Teachers Council that a police certificate is required for the purposes of registration in New Zealand. You will need to submit your application for registration to the Teachers Council before we can issue you with this letter.
Once the Teachers Council has sent you the letter to send to the Hong Kong Police authorities, you will need to apply for 'The Certificate of No Criminal Conviction, from 14th Floor, Arsenal House, Police Headquarters, 1 Arsenal Street, Wanchai, Hong Kong.
Other CountriesYou should make your own enquiries about obtaining a police certificate either from the police in that country or nearest embassy as appropriate.
Further information is available from the following website www.migrationint.com.au/office.asp
If you are unable to provide a police certificate a statutory declaration is accepted by the Council as a last resort and only for countries where a police clearance certificate is unobtainable. The statutory declaration must be less than six months old, and must detail your attempts to obtain a police certificate. It needs to state that you have not been convicted or found guilty of any offences against the law of that country or have not been charged with any offence against the law in that country. The statutory declaration must be signed by solicitor, Justice of the Peace or notary public.
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