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• New Bill To Require That Firms Check On Foreign Recruits

  March 01, 2011 - Companies  will have to do their own background checks on people they want to bring into the country if the Department of Home Affairs has its way with amendments to the Immigration Act. At a parliamentary press conference, Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said the aim of the amendments was to "streamline and create checks and balances and centralise the process" for people wanting to enter South Africa. "If a company wants to bring someone into the country, such as a CEO, then it makes no sense to have police clearances for every country that person has been in for the past 20 years," she said. However, Dlamini- Zuma said the idea was to make companies "responsible" for ensuring...

• Straightline International Makes Record Search Turnaround Time Calculations As Easy As Clicking A Bu

  March 01, 2011 - My brother, Dennis, is some kind of engineering genius.  While, as a kid,  he was building intricate plastic models, one particularly of...

• Aviva (UK) Warns Against Risk of Criminal Records

  March 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...

• Straightline / Chimera Add Growth Within The Pacific Basin

  March 01, 2011 - Steven Brownstein, LLC , dba as Straightline International and The Background Investigator has acquired a majority interest in Chimera, LLC, an int...

• Steven Brownstein Speaks To NAPBS Members About International Background Checks

  March 01, 2011 - It began as a side business for Steven Brownstein, who was in the 1990's the USA's largest provider of criminal background searches. With o...

• More Than Half Of CPIC Searches Need To Provide Fingerprints

  February 01, 2011 - A calculation by an SFU (Statistics and Actuarial Science Canada) statistician suggests at least one-third of male volunteers – and perhaps c...

• Label' Em Criminals

  February 01, 2011 - Finnish Immigration Affairs Minister Astrid Thors says that statistics on crimes committed by foreigners in the country should include more detaile...

• Japan Crime Rate To Hit 23 Year Low

  February 01, 2011 - The number of crime cases detected by police in Japan in 2010 looks set to total below 1.6 million for the first time in 23 years, according to a p...

• One India State Has Bright Idea About Criminal Database

  February 01, 2011 - Uttar Pradesh Police will soon compile a comprehensive database on criminals to keep a check on crimes in the state, a senior government official h...

• Canadian Courts Grapple With CPIC Data

  February 01, 2011 - An Ontario judge’s ruling has disclosed what one Crown prosecutor calls a “major problem” with criminal record files held by the...

• Lack Of Marriage Records Aids Rise In Chinese Bigamy

  February 01, 2011 - China's increasingly mobile society has seen a significant increase in the number of people taking second spouses, and the illegal practice of...

• EU And USA Negotiate New Personal Data Protection Regulations

  February 01, 2011 - The European Union (EU) and the US are set to embark on a data-protection agreement that will see a unified fight against terrorism and crime, as w...

• Cairo And Alexandria, Egypt Court Record Searches Are Temporarily Suspended

  February 01, 2011 -   Straightline International announces the disruption of court record retrieval and access services in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt. Th...

• Straightline International Provides Background Checks To Brazil

  February 01, 2011 - Straightline International provides expert criminal and court record research in Brazil.   Straightline's accurate service, enhanc...

• UK Shutting Down Courts

  January 01, 2011 - The UK government has revealed that 93 magistrates' courts are to be closed in England and Wales. Justice Minister Jonathan Djanogly also s...

• Straightline International Offers Free Services Online

  January 01, 2011 - You can get Straightline International’s pricing and turn around times online—and it’s free! Most likely,  the industry&...

• Criminal RCMP Background Checks Taking Forever' In Canada

  January 01, 2011 - With the holidays coming up, Janet Adams was looking to supplement her income from her part-time job. So she landed a second gig driving a taxi....

• Half Of Large Canadian Companies Hit By Employee Fraud Attempts

  January 01, 2011 - A recent survey finds that 48 percent of executives at large Canadian companies said that workers have attempted to defraud their organizations, wh...