Police Background Checks

Welcome to the Cape Breton Regional Police Service's online Criminal Record Check process for students applying to the Atlantic Police Academy (APA). After registering and applying, if there are no concerns or follow-up required, your police record check results will be made available to you via electronic download.

This site is open to any prospective APA student applicant, regardless of where they reside in Canada.

NOTE: If you are seeking a police check for another educational institution, or require a check for purposes other than application to the Atlantic Police Academy, please click here.

This process is intended for persons living and working in Canada. If you are living/working outside Canada, you should obtain a Criminal Record Check from the RCMP through the submission of fingerprints. Click here for details.

A police record check is current as of the date it is completed. It is your employer/prospective employer or organization's function to determine if the record check is current enough to be accepted for the position applied for. The Cape Breton Regional Police Service, its officers, agents and employees, shall have no responsibility or obligation to make such a determination.

Incomplete applications (i.e. no identification provided, authentication aborted / failed / not completed or further information requested) and applications requiring in-person attendance will remain in the processing queue for no more than sixty (60) days from the time of initial application. Fees are non-refundable and incomplete applications will be considered 'abandoned', and removed from the processing queue after sixty (60) days.

The Cape Breton Regional Police Service will return the results of the check by e-mail to the applicant only. We will not distribute the results to a third-party organization or employer under any circumstances.