Service Guide

Police verification services

Use police verification support for employees and candidates where client policy, address risk, field work, or role sensitivity requires it.

1,654+Cities covered
83+Sectors supported
14+Check categories

Overview

Practical guidance for employer-side verification planning.

Police verification is often used for roles involving household access, field visits, security responsibility, logistics, facility operations, financial trust, or customer-facing work.

The exact process can vary by location, documents, candidate address, local authority requirements, and employer policy.

Eimager can support police verification along with identity, address, criminal and court record, employment, and reference checks for stronger risk control.

Recommended checks

  • Police verification
  • Address verification
  • Identity verification
  • Criminal and court record check
  • Reference check

When employers use this service

Common hiring situations where this check adds value.

Use Police Verification Services when a candidate will handle company systems, customer data, financial processes, field operations, warehouse access, client sites, or sensitive internal workflows.

This service is also useful for distributed hiring where candidates may work from a branch, office, factory, customer location, or remote address.

Employers can combine this check with identity, address, criminal, police, reference, UAN, CIBIL, or database checks when the role needs deeper diligence.

Pricing factors

  • Number of candidates and checks selected
  • Whether digital, document-led, field, or authority-based verification is required
  • Location complexity and address coverage
  • Candidate document completeness and quality
  • Client reporting format, evidence needs, and escalation workflow

Verification process

The workflow employers usually follow before final report delivery.

  1. 1 Submit request

    Share candidate details, selected checks, location, and policy requirements.

  2. 2 Collect consent

    Confirm candidate authorization and collect check-specific documents.

  3. 3 Run checks

    Verify records through digital, document-led, employer, institution, or field workflows.

  4. 4 Review remarks

    Check responses, exceptions, mismatches, evidence, and escalation notes.

  5. 5 Quality check

    Review report completeness and make sure selected checks are represented correctly.

  6. 6 Final report

    Receive status, remarks, and supporting details based on the verification scope.

Industry use cases

How employers commonly apply this verification service across sectors.

IT and shared services

Useful for employees who handle client systems, remote access, confidential data, software delivery, support desks, and hybrid onboarding.

BFSI and fintech

Supports hiring where candidates may handle customer information, financial workflows, collections, credit processes, or regulated client operations.

Healthcare and education

Helps validate candidate credentials, experience, address details, and role suitability for trust-sensitive service environments.

Manufacturing and logistics

Useful for plant workers, warehouse teams, field staff, delivery operations, vendor employees, facility teams, and multi-site deployments.

Documents required

  • Candidate consent
  • Identity proof
  • Address proof
  • Candidate photograph where required
  • Current and permanent address details
  • Employer request details where applicable

Turnaround factors

  • Response time from employers, institutions, authorities, or local contacts
  • Correctness of candidate details and supporting documents
  • Whether the check requires field movement or local coordination
  • Number of previous employers, addresses, or qualifications to verify
  • Any mismatch, insufficiency, or clarification raised during verification

Related verification services

Combine this workflow with other checks based on role risk, location, and employer policy.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers for HR teams planning this verification workflow.

When should employers use police verification?

It is useful for role-sensitive hiring, field work, customer-site access, security roles, domestic or facility staff, and cases where employer policy requires it.

Is police verification the same as criminal verification?

No. Police verification and criminal or court-record checks are related risk controls, but the process, source, and output may differ.

Does police verification require documents?

Yes. Identity proof, address proof, candidate consent, and location-specific details are commonly required.