Khmer Police Check Translation
Cambodian Criminal Record (ព្រឹត្តិបត្រថ្កោលទោស) Translation
Cambodia's Ministry of Justice runs the criminal-record service that issues this document, using the spelling ព្រឹត្តិបត្រថ្កោលទោស (api.moj.gov.kh). People search for it as a Cambodian police check, police clearance or criminal record extract. We translate the document you receive — NAATI-certified, $59 per selected page, complete order within 24 hours.
Issuance and translation are separate things
The Ministry of Justice issues the record. We translate the copy you hold. We are not affiliated with the ministry and cannot apply on your behalf, check your eligibility, or tell you what it will cost or how long it will take.
- Commonly requested for partner, skilled, employer-sponsored and family applications
- Also requested for citizenship, professional registration and employment screening
- The Cambodian consular services list also names this document type (recbn.mfaic.gov.kh)
- Check whether your copy already carries an English version before ordering
- Reference numbers, issue dates and official endorsements are part of the record
- Any recency requirement comes from the receiving body, not from us
NAATI Certification
How we translate a Cambodian criminal record
Our NAATI-certified Khmer translators render the result wording exactly as stated rather than paraphrasing it, and preserve the reference number, the issuing authority, the date of issue and every stamp, signature and endorsement on the document. Where the record is issued digitally, verification identifiers printed on it are reproduced so the receiving body can check the original. We do not add a validity period the document does not state, and a translation does not extend or shorten whatever currency the recipient expects.
- Commonly required for Department of Home Affairs applications
- Used for university, government and employment submissions
- Includes the translator's certification statement and details
Flat rate
Instant price · Under 24-hour delivery
If your document contains multiple pages, you choose the pages to translate and each selected page is charged at $59. Your final page count is confirmed on upload before payment — no manual quote and no callback wait.
- $59 per page, shown upfront
- No manual quote — order immediately
- No waiting for a callback
- Your complete order delivered under 24 hours as standard — average under six hours
- Translation by a NAATI-certified translator
- Delivered as a secure PDF
Frequently asked questions
Who issues a police clearance certificate in Cambodia
ព្រឹត្តិបត្រថ្កោលទោស, commonly searched for in English as a Cambodian police clearance or criminal record, is issued through the Ministry of Justice criminal-record service. Check the receiving organisation's current instructions for the certificate and recency it requires.
Cambodian civil-status documents are issued by commune and sangkat registrars under the Ministry of Interior's General Department of Identification. Documents issued since the civil-registration reforms are printed on standardised forms with a reference number; earlier records are handwritten in Khmer script on locally held registers, and many families hold a reconstituted certificate issued years after the event.
What your certified English translation reproduces
Every certified translation we issue is a complete rendering of the source document — not a summary. For a Khmer police clearance certificate that means:
- Applicant's full name, date and place of birth and identity document number
- The issuing authority, reference number and the date the search was run
- The scope of the search — national register, period covered and any regional limitation
- The result statement, translated literally rather than paraphrased as 'clear'
- Any recorded conviction with its statutory reference and sentence
- Validity period, seal, signature and any verification code or QR reference
Khmer names, dates and script
Khmer is written in Khmer script, which has no capitalisation and no spaces between words, so romanisation is unstandardised — the same name may appear as Sok, Sokh or Sock across documents. Cambodian convention places the family name first, which Australian forms routinely reverse. Dates may also be recorded against the Buddhist Era calendar, which runs 543 years ahead of the Gregorian year, and we convert with the original retained.
Seals, stamps and legalisation
Expect commune seals, thumbprints in place of signatures on older records, and Khmer-script handwriting that varies in legibility. We reproduce the seals, signatures, endorsements and any authentication details actually present on the copy supplied. Translation and authentication are separate processes, so check the receiving organisation's current instructions rather than assuming a fixed legalisation chain.
How Australian agencies read this document
Australian organisations use the translation to read the issuing authority, the scope of the search and the result statement exactly as recorded. Requirements vary by organisation and by application — check the receiving organisation's current instructions for which certificate it needs and how recent it must be.
Commonly requested alongside visa, registration and employment applications. Check the current document and translation checklist published by the organisation you are submitting to.
What we check before certifying
Most delays are caused by the source document, not the translation. These are the issues we look for on Khmer police clearance certificates and raise with you before the file is certified:
- A reconstituted or late-registered certificate issued long after the event, which needs its issue date and reconstitution note translated so the delay is visible and explained rather than looking like an inconsistency
- Romanised spellings that differ between the passport, the birth record and the school certificate, with no single authoritative version
- Buddhist Era dates read as Gregorian, which shifts a date of birth by more than five centuries if left unconverted
- Only part of the document supplied, so headers, footers, seals or reference details are missing
- A local or municipal clearance obtained where the receiving organisation asked for a national-level certificate
- A result phrase that means 'no entry found in this register' being loosely rendered as 'no criminal record', which overstates the search scope
Pages, pricing and turnaround
Police certificates are charged at $59 per page, with under 24-hour delivery as standard.
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