By Erwin Beleo SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union - The City Police recently launched the New Police Clearance System, a web-based database software application aimed at solving crimes faster and easier and which was installed in Barangay Tanqui city station. NEW POLICE CLEARANCE SYSTEM – A clearance personnel verifying one of the applicants in the web-based Police Clearance LANI (Locally and Nationally Integrated) on Thursday (June 28, 2018) at San Fernando City Police Station in Tanqui, San Fernando City, La Union. (Photo by: ERWIN BELEO/ MANILA BULLETIN) Under the new PNP clearance, system criminal records of applicants can be easily tracked in the PNP e-Warrant to ensure that applicants don’t have a standing warrant of arrest, convicted, under probation and or pending case. According to the new policy, the approximate processing time was shortened to 30 minutes, saving approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes of an applicant’s time. The system named Police Clearance LANI (Locally and Nationally Integrated), a web-based design centralizes issuance of clearance for several cities and municipalities. All data are gathered and stored in PNP clearance database (PNP main office) complies with Data Privacy Act of 2012 and are kept confidential and available only to law enforcers with proper authorization. PNP online clearance system is a lightweight (minimalist) web application written entirely in JavaScript. It's an ad free site and does not link nor redirect to external sites, according to the system description. Aside from the police clearance, other systems like the Case Management and Analysis System, the Case Information and Database Management System, the “e-Rogues Gallery” and “e-Warrant” System, and the Crime Information Reporting and Analysis System were also launched. This new system policy is mandated by the Philippine National Police through its Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management’s (DIDM).