There are many reasons as to why some police checks may take longer than others to process, including:

• The individual has a common name, or a name that matches with many potential persons of interest
• Transferring information between various state and territory police agencies before the information can be vetted and/or released
• The relevant police agency has inaccurate or incomplete records which need to be investigated before the check can be finalised
• Old police history associated with a possible match requires manual collection and processing of hardcopy records
• Workloads within each police agency

Here is some further information about how the police check application process works, including timeframes for finalising referred checks: Information about how police checks are processed