What is an advanced police disclosure check?

What is an advanced police disclosure check?

An Enhanced disclosure check shows full details of a person’s criminal record such as cautions, reprimands, warnings, spent and unspent convictions.

What will appear on an enhanced DBS check?

What does an Enhanced DBS check show? This level of check shows full details of a criminal record. This includes cautions, warnings, reprimands, spent and unspent convictions. It can also search the children and vulnerable adults ‘barred list’ to see if the applicant is prohibited from working with these groups.

What does disclosure of police intelligence on Enhanced checks mean?

Disclosure of police intelligence on enhanced checks (approved information) Introduction Each Police Force maintains a local record of information, which can be used to disclose information referred to on a disclosure in the ‘other relevant information’ section on an enhanced check. This is formally known as ‘approved information’.

Is the disclosure of enhanced criminal record check legal?

At the end of July 2018 a case was heard in the Supreme Court [ R (AR) -v- Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police and another] relating to the lawfulness of the disclosure of a rape acquittal on an Enhanced Criminal Record Check (ECRC). The details of the case are that in 2011 AR was acquitted of rape.

What do I need to know about enhanced disclosures?

If your staff or potential employees require an enhanced check, get in touch today. An Enhanced Disclosure (like the Standard Disclosure) details all criminal history; cautions, warnings, reprimands and convictions held on the Police National Computer, with the exception of the DBS filtering rule.

How to stop police information from being disclosed?

While there is no real hope of getting local police information deleted from police records, there are steps you can take to try and stop it from being disclosed on an enhanced check. We suggest that you make sure that you have a full understanding about the information that is held on you by the Police.

Disclosure of police intelligence on enhanced checks (approved information) Introduction Each Police Force maintains a local record of information, which can be used to disclose information referred to on a disclosure in the ‘other relevant information’ section on an enhanced check. This is formally known as ‘approved information’.

At the end of July 2018 a case was heard in the Supreme Court [ R (AR) -v- Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police and another] relating to the lawfulness of the disclosure of a rape acquittal on an Enhanced Criminal Record Check (ECRC). The details of the case are that in 2011 AR was acquitted of rape.

While there is no real hope of getting local police information deleted from police records, there are steps you can take to try and stop it from being disclosed on an enhanced check. We suggest that you make sure that you have a full understanding about the information that is held on you by the Police.

What do you need to know about enhanced disclosure?

Usually, an enhanced disclosure will be done alongside a search of the Barred Lists. These are official registers held by the Home Office, and which contain the names of people who have been prohibited by the courts from working with children, vulnerable adults, or both. In some cases, the police might list some “intelligence” they have on file.