COIMBATORE: Police on Wednesday launched online police verification service to enable people get four types of police verification reports (PVR) within 15 days.Public as well as private companies that want to do self-verification, job verification, tenant verification and domestic help verification could do it by visiting www.eservices.tnpolice.gov.in, inspector general of police K Periaiah said.“The government has fixed a fee of 500 per application for individuals and 1,000 for companies. The aim of the service is to verify the identity of a person, current address and to check if he/she is involved in any criminal case. The service is applicable only for verifying details of those residing in Tamil Nadu . The verification process will be completed within 15 days and a copy of PVR will be sent through e-mail to the applicant. They no longer need to visit police station and wait for weeks to get the verification report. The status of the application could be checked using the PVR number in the website,” the officer said.To check the authenticity of the PVR report, applicants could scan the QR code on the report through the verify option on the website, police commissioner Sumit Sharan said. “The verification process will be initiated only if the applicant has attached consent letter of the person to be verified. It is to ensure the verification process is carried out with the knowledge of that person.”The report will reveal if someone is a troublemonger or has political influence, said an officer in charge of the service. “Earlier, the verification process was done manually and it took at least 30 to 50 days as the files were to be move from the headquarters to the police station concerned and had to come back once verification was completed. Also, the applicants needed to submit the application along with challan at police headquarters or commissioner office and collect it from the respective office,” the officer said.At present, while the district police receive about 1,200 to 2,000 applications, the city police get 2,400 to 3,600 applications annually, the official said, adding that in the last three years, most of the private companies had not recruited staff without doing police verification.Lakshmi from RS Puram, who applied for self-verification report during the trial period, said she received the report within three days.

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