+x+xIn 1989 and 1997 I was convicted of theift and fraud. Both times recieved fine and community service order. I have recently applied for an enhanced disclosure certificate and it has no record of either conviction on it. I have was honest when filling in the forms and gave all the correct details ref addresses etc. Because there was nothing on the DBS I did a subject access request to my local force and they told me there are no records of me ever being convicted of anything on the National Police database. How can this be?? Cheers I would obtain a certified copy for your retention and presentation. Plus not raise it with the autorities unless a bad occurance / scenario arises. The reason they are no longer there is probably because the filtering rules changed in November 2020 after a Supreme Court ruling against the government. Part of the changes was to do away with the multiple convictions rule, so each conviction is now treated separately. It looks like your convictions are eligible for filtering, so they have been filtered since the end of November 2020. That means employers no longer have the legal right to that information, so you can stop disclosing them! A subject access request to your local force will only show what they have on their local files. That would be stuff like allegations, safeguarding intelligence, community resolution orders and so on. To get a copy of your Police National Computer record, you need to make a subject access request to ACRO, via their website here. It's free, so you might as well....
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If you are to punish a man retributively you must injure him. If you are to reform him you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries. (George Bernard Shaw)
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