Overseas Criminal Records Checks

The organisations carrying out Checks (Access NI, CRB and Disclosure Scotland) also acknowledge they may not provide full details on a workers history outside the UK. The following quote comes from the Disclosure Scotland website.

“Disclosure Scotland and CRB cannot currently access overseas criminal records or other relevant information as part of their disclosure service. If Boards are recruiting staff from overseas, a Disclosure Scotland check may not provide a complete picture of their criminal record that may or may not exist.”

There have already been cases of people working with Children & Vulnerable adults in the UK who have serious criminal convictions from abroad that have gone undetected as CRB Checks only cover the UK and our company allows organizations to achieve best practice and protect their reputations by carrying out Criminal Record and Background Reference Checks for international workers & UK Nationals abroad conducted in their country of origin.

It is complicated and time consuming for organisations to carry out their own checks. Some organisations ask workers to supplement their applications by providing their own criminal record certificates from their country of origin but there can be problems with this process: -

1. The opportunity to falsify documents
2. The potential to obtain a clear criminal record by means of corruption
3. If another country does not have a national database a candidate may not have a record in one state where a check is obtained but do have a record in another state
4. Sometimes no mechanism to verify an un-translated document
5. Can be difficult to compare legal systems overseas to UK

Global Vetting have identified the 54 key countries that UK nationals return from and that non-UK nationals come to the UK from. Our expertise lies in the knowledge and systems we have developed over the past 18 months allowing us to conduct complex International criminal record checks in country.

The process to obtain a check varies from country to country and we are able to carry out checks on existing staff who are already in the UK as well as for potential new starts in their country of origin.

When providing an overseas criminal record check we will provide a translation of all documents and we will also supply information about the country that the check is being carried out in which is very important in terms of how spent convictions are treated, age of consent etc.

Global Vetting are able to provide this unique service for clients in the UK offering significant peace of mind in terms of who they are recruiting.