A police certificate is an official document issued by the Nigerian police to determine if the applicant has any outstanding criminal records or activity from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) that he/she may or may not have committed. Criminal records may include arrests, convictions, and criminal proceedings. A police certificate is also known as a good citizen certificate, good conduct certificate, or judicial record extract.

Applicants have to submit fingerprints and certain personal information such as addresses, date of birth, place of birth, etc to get a criminal record check via the police records database. The Nigerian police force will charge a fee, If no record is found, the police certificate will indicate so in written form such as a certificate. Anyone from any nationality who has lived or lives in Nigeria for more than 30 days is eligible to get this clearance certificate.

The criminal record is a document that can be asked at any point in time for those that need to travel out of the country by the embassy as part of their travel documentation or it can be required of you to provide the police criminal record before you can be given a job in some of the big companies both in Nigeria or in the diaspora. 

Nigeria Criminal record is a vital document which any company or embassy can use to know the state of someone atrusity, 

The processing is quite easy and straightforward it takes a few hours

It can also be done with or without your presence in Nigeria all you need to do is to complete the police clearance certificate form and follow the due process for your certificate.