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Quarter Of UK Population Will Be On New Police Database
July 01, 2011 - The personal details of 15 million people, a quarter of the population of Britain, will be held on a new police database which will include information about victims of crime, it has emerged. The Police National Database, which will be launched by UK ministers next week, will hold the records up to six million apparently innocent people, including every victim of sexual assault and domestic violence. Civil liberties groups and senior MPs yesterday expressed concern at the scale of the database and the number of people who will be able to access it. According to official figures a total of 9.2 million people in the UK have criminal records, which means the new database will hold information about up to six million people who h...
Costa Rica Catches On To Criminal Pasts
July 01, 2011 - A total of 324 people who wanted to join the ranks of the Costa Rica Fuerza Pública (police) were rejected for having a criminal records, ma...
More Than One Million Crimes Not On UK Police Database
July 01, 2011 - More than one million crimes, including murders and rapes, are not on the Police National Computer because forces are refusing to pay a fee to obta...
Panchkula Court To Put Data Online
July 01, 2011 - Litigants, who are contesting cases in the district court here, will soon be able to access the cause list and daily judgments at the click of a mo...
Czech Ombudsman's Analysis Shows Job Announcement Discrimination
July 01, 2011 - A recent analysis published by the Czech ombudsman, Pavel Varvarovský, has revealed an unflattering fact: Of more than 1 200 job announcemen...
How Far Back Does Your Vendor Search?
July 01, 2011 - A register of medieval court rolls, surveys and maps, has been released online for the first time. Information about 200 Nottinghamshire manors...
Straightline International Criminal Record Background Checks Opens Office In Mumbai
July 01, 2011 - Steven Brownstein announces that a Straightline International office is being established in Mumbai, India to handle the growing global presence of...
IPC Cases To Reach Panchkula CBI Court
June 01, 2011 - Cases registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Haryana under Indian Penal Code (IPC) have now been transferred to the CBI court i...
A Canadian Council Dumps Criminal Record Check Fee
June 01, 2011 - Volunteers can rest a little easier. The Sooke (Canada) council voted to amend and give third reading to Bylaw No. 488 Fees Bylaw. After a lot...
Criminal Background Checks Gone Awry
June 01, 2011 - A UK badminton club says it is turning away under-18s because Criminal Records Bureau checks and other steps designed to protect children are leavi...
Employee Caught Stealing And His Boss Ends Up Paying
June 01, 2011 - When this business owner attempted to teach a fraudulent worker a lesson, he ended up learning a few things himself. Here’s the backgroun...
Behave At Work Or It's Jail For You
June 01, 2011 - Victoria, Australia's Parliament House has passed a bill that would send individuals convicted of workplace bullying to prison for 10 years....
Canadian Turned Away At Border
May 01, 2011 - Rene Burellee doesn’t deny he has a criminal record. But since the assault charge in 1972 left him with a two-year suspended sentence, he has...
Australia: Prospectuses To Disclose 'Relevant' Criminal Convictions
May 01, 2011 - The Australian Securities and Investment Commission will require companies to disclose "relevant" criminal convictions in prospectuses un...
Aviva (UK Insurance) Warns Against Risk of Criminal Records And Claim Rejections
May 01, 2011 - Home insurance policy holders should at all times inform their insurance company if any member of the household is found guilty of a criminal offen...
Council Dumps Criminal Record Check Fee
May 01, 2011 - Volunteers can rest a little easier. On April 26, Sooke (Canada) council voted to amend and give third reading to Bylaw No. 488 Fees Bylaw. Aft...
Straightline International Opens Office In Hong Kong
May 01, 2011 - Steven Brownstein and Faheem Ebrahim, annouce the opening of a new Hong Kong office for Straightline International and The Background Investigator....
The Difference Between Great Britain And The United Kingdom
April 01, 2011 - The United Kingdom is made up of the countries of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Its full name is the United Kingdom of Great B...
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