Police, in association with Regional Passport Office, are devising a new simpler process whereby police verification report, a pre-requisite for passport, will be prepared and issued within ten days.

"We have devised an exercise that will ensure completion of police verification within ten days, instead of usual 30 to 40 days. Mumbai is the first metropolitan city which has taken up this endeavour so that applicants need not be required to go through a cumbersome process. The most important police verification will be done in a time-bound manner," Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria said today.