Character Certificates Issue To Citizens Under One Window System

More than 1.25 million Character Certificates have been issued to the citizens under the one-window system in the 93 Police Khidmat Centers established across Punjab.

Character Certificates Issue To Citizens Under One Window System

More than 1.25 million Character Certificates have been issued to the citizens under the one-window system in the 93 Police Khidmat Centers established across Punjab. These Police Khidmat Centers have been established by the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) in collaboration with the Police Department to provide police related facilities to the citizens. This was told in a meeting presided over by PITB Chairman Faisal Yousaf.

The participants of the meeting were apprised that apart from Character Certificate, 17 more services including FIR copy, Vehicle Verification, Tenant Registration, Missing Documents, General Police Verification, Employee Verification, Missing Report etc are also provided under one roof in the Police Khidmat Centers.

In this regard, Chairman Faisal Yousaf said that the purpose of establishing Police Khidmat Centers is to further improve the atmosphere of trust between the citizens and the police.

In 36 districts across Punjab, the Punjab Police has set up citizen facilitation centres known as Police Khidmat Markaz (PKM) (complete list of centres along with contact details and locations is available here).

As one of Punjab Police’s technology partners, Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) has automated the procedures and created a centrally integrated IT system for these facilities to increase operational effectiveness.

A police character certificate is necessary for immigration, working abroad for various organisations, and international travel. Character certification used to be a difficult and time-consuming process for both citizens and police. PKM has streamlined and speeded up the process.

Instead of physically travelling to the district or address where the character certificate is needed, a citizen can now apply for one online from any centre in Punjab.

For instance, the citizen can apply for the certificate directly from PKM in Multan rather than travelling all the way to Mianwali if he or she is currently residing in Multan and needs one from Mianwali (where they previously resided).