Digital criminal record check tips sheet

All applicants to the College must provide a Canadian Criminal Record Check (CRC) Report in the original paper or digital format that was provided to you by the police.

If you have a digital CRC Report, please refer to the guidelines below and upload your document via our file upload portal.

If you have a paper CRC Report provided by a police department, you can mail it to:

Ontario College of Teachers
101 Bloor Street West
Toronto ON
M5S 0A1

A digital CRC Report must meet the below criteria for the College to accept it.

ALL CRC REPORTS MUST

• Not be older than six months
• Include first, middle and last names, as well as any former names. Applicants must disclose all current and former names.

DIGITAL CRC REPORTS MUST

• Be issued in an electronic/digital format by a police department within Canada
• Remain in the original format issued to you by the police department (i.e., it has not been resaved into another format; is not a screenshot or picture of a CRC Report that was issued in paper format).

DIGITAL CRC REPORTS THAT ARE ISSUED IN PDF FORMAT MUST

• Not be changed or altered
• Accompanied by a password if it is password-protected.

FOR DIGITAL CRCS THAT ARE ACCESSIBLE TO THE APPLICANT BY WEBLINK

• The applicant must download and forward the CRC via the upload portal. The College will not access digital criminal record checks from a weblink.