JAMAICA police report

[eagle+eyed 8]

Is this correct?

21 days to see report and costs 2,000 JMD.. friends who been thru it before tell me it's 4,000 JMD$ to get the report and it takes much less time? What could be the issue here?

[staceluvyou 6]

no i went through it three weeks ago, it is $1000 you pay to get it in 21 days or $2000 to get it back in 5 days. there is no more option. you can pay the fee at any tax office islandwide and take the receipt along with your passport and two passport pics to 34 duke street to do the fingerprinting and processing. NB. if you are from outside of kingston, there are police stations in clarendon and montego bay that can take your fingerprints,ask at your nearest police station which ones for sure, but you still has to go to duke street for the report.

[Princessblack 21]

Really? @ Duke Street.

I remember doing my grandmother's PC and it was a cost of $1000 within 2 weeks but that was 2 years ago. RIP>

Now I learnt its $2500 and requesting from the nearest police station to where your beneficiary lives is even better!

Expedited PC is more $$ within 1 day.

[staceluvyou 6]

Really? @ Duke Street.

I remember doing my grandmother's PC and it was a cost of $1000 within 2 weeks but that was 2 years ago. RIP>

Now I learnt its $2500 and requesting from the nearest police station to where your beneficiary lives is even better!

Expedited PC is more $$ within 1 day.

sorry but there is no one day service and you cannot obtain it from just any police station, there are a few selected stations in rural parishes that you can get your prints done, but you have to go to duke street for the report and don't forget to bring your receipt when collecting. and as i say, it's $1000 for 21 days and $2000 for 5 days and that is the express. it is posted in every tax office across the isalnd check it out for yourself.

[ShanSHAN 4]

sorry but there is no one day service and you cannot obtain it from just any police station, there are a few selected stations in rural parishes that you can get your prints done, but you have to go to duke street for the report and don't forget to bring your receipt when collecting. and as i say, it's $1000 for 21 days and $2000 for 5 days and that is the express. it is posted in every tax office across the isalnd check it out for yourself.

Stacyluvyou, u r correct! It's a grand for 21days and double for 5. Those are the only two options and it must be picked up at Duke street! My husband picked his up July 1st, 2011.

[eagle+eyed 8]

Okay Good to know... Fiance got it in St. Mary somewhere and they tell him 21 days, so he keeps the receipt he has now and calls later to check and once it's ready he goes to Duke St??

[Princessblack 21]

sorry but there is no one day service and you cannot obtain it from just any police station, there are a few selected stations in rural parishes that you can get your prints done, but you have to go to duke street for the report and don't forget to bring your receipt when collecting. and as i say, it's $1000 for 21 days and $2000 for 5 days and that is the express. it is posted in every tax office across the isalnd check it out for yourself.

For you..but for my grand mother we got it from the local police station. Maybe because she was extremely old.

[JAPrincess 27]

sorry but there is no one day service and you cannot obtain it from just any police station, there are a few selected stations in rural parishes that you can get your prints done, but you have to go to duke street for the report and don't forget to bring your receipt when collecting. and as i say, it's $1000 for 21 days and $2000 for 5 days and that is the express. it is posted in every tax office across the isalnd check it out for yourself.

this is accurate info!

They used to have a 1 day service too, but I think they stopped it.

You must go to Duke St to pick up the report!

Mrs.Blackwood, was your Grandmother's report for immigration purposes?

[Princessblack 21]

Yes @ JAPrincess.

Maybe different unless they made a change since 9/2010 to present.

[JAPrincess 27]

Yes @ JAPrincess.

Maybe different unless they made a change since 9/2010 to present.

interesting, cause even when we did our K1 in '09 we were told we had to go to Duke St.

P.S. Congrats on the speedy NOA2!!!

[JAPrincess 27]

Good Morning Mrs. Blackwood,

I saw this article and it made me think of this convo:

As efforts continue to improve the level of service to the public in the provision of police records, effective April 1, 2011, the public may go to any of the thirty offices of the Inland Revenue Department, to pay the fees required to obtain police records.

In addition to 34 Duke Street in Kingston, persons may go with their receipts to the police stations at Summit in St. James, May Pen in Clarendon and Pompano Bay in St. Mary to have their fingerprints taken.

http://www.jamaicanpolice.com/2011/04/update-regarding-obtaining-a-jamaica-police-record/

It still appears that they have to go to Kingston to pick the report up tho

[Princessblack 21]

JAP...things have indeed changed.

My husband just applied and picked up his Police certificate @ Oxford Rd then picked up the report @Duke St. $2,000JMD for 1 week express. $1,000 for regular.

Fingerprints were taken at Duke Street after a long everlasting 1 day wait. Bwoy system needs to get better down there.

[eagle+eyed 8]

This police record is going to make my head explode!! Fiance went to the St. Mary location well over a month ago. When I was in JA we went there 3 times, each time the place was either closed or guard said it was the wrong day. (Found out later this location is only open for police records Tues, Weds, Thurs from 8:30 til 3 or so...)

Anyway, I left JA last week and fiance went there on Wednesday during open hours. The man at the front told him they can't find Fiance's form and that he must leave his number down and that they'll CALL him? What the....??? This was last Wednesday and he is going to go there again Tuesday and ask what's really going on here. I thought he had to go to Duke Street, but the officer did tell him and I when we went there that he can pick up the record right there in St. Mary... Ughhhhh

Then we happened to run into a police brethren he does know and told us about the Jamaican way of "expungement"... see: http://www.moj.gov.jm/expungement

Anyone ever gone thru this before? It says you are able to make a case for expungement if you were only locked up once and less than 3 years... hmmmm

[Back2real 4]

This police record is going to make my head explode!! Fiance went to the St. Mary location well over a month ago. When I was in JA we went there 3 times, each time the place was either closed or guard said it was the wrong day. (Found out later this location is only open for police records Tues, Weds, Thurs from 8:30 til 3 or so...)

Anyway, I left JA last week and fiance went there on Wednesday during open hours. The man at the front told him they can't find Fiance's form and that he must leave his number down and that they'll CALL him? What the....??? This was last Wednesday and he is going to go there again Tuesday and ask what's really going on here. I thought he had to go to Duke Street, but the officer did tell him and I when we went there that he can pick up the record right there in St. Mary... Ughhhhh

Then we happened to run into a police brethren he does know and told us about the Jamaican way of "expungement"... see: http://www.moj.gov.jm/expungement

Anyone ever gone thru this before? It says you are able to make a case for expungement if you were only locked up once and less than 3 years... hmmmm

Did you ever get the police cert from St. Mary?

[sus 70]

This police record is going to make my head explode!! Fiance went to the St. Mary location well over a month ago. When I was in JA we went there 3 times, each time the place was either closed or guard said it was the wrong day. (Found out later this location is only open for police records Tues, Weds, Thurs from 8:30 til 3 or so...)

Anyway, I left JA last week and fiance went there on Wednesday during open hours. The man at the front told him they can't find Fiance's form and that he must leave his number down and that they'll CALL him? What the....??? This was last Wednesday and he is going to go there again Tuesday and ask what's really going on here. I thought he had to go to Duke Street, but the officer did tell him and I when we went there that he can pick up the record right there in St. Mary... Ughhhhh

Then we happened to run into a police brethren he does know and told us about the Jamaican way of "expungement"... see: http://www.moj.gov.jm/expungement

Anyone ever gone thru this before? It says you are able to make a case for expungement if you were only locked up once and less than 3 years... hmmmm

Ummmmmmmmm.................. less than 3 years has nothing to do with immigration - the standard is being convicted of a crime that COULD have resulted in a sentence of more than 1 year - literally 366 days - whether served or not. If your fiance has a conviction and jail time, you had better sort that out well before the interview.....