Seasider3610
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Full of criminals apparently due to poor vetting according to reports out today.
Who would have thought that?
Who would have thought that?
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boabthebetter
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Full?
Keep the faith
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I would imagine the police in South Africa are more corrupt , anyway on a separate note I think having a criminal conviction should not stop you being able to join The police , we all make mistakes especially in our teens and twenties, if you join the police and put something back every creditFull of criminals apparently due to poor vetting according to reports out today.
Who would have thought that?
Seasider3610
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I would imagine the police in South Africa are more corrupt , anyway on a separate note I think having a criminal conviction should not stop you being able to join The police , we all make mistakes especially in our teens and twenties, if you join the police and put something back every credit
“Hundreds of police officers who should have failed vetting checks may be in the job in England and Wales, a damning report has found.
The police watchdog looked at eight forces and found decisions on officers which were "questionable at best".
One officer convicted of domestic abuse and one accused of sexual assault were among those accepted.”
From the BBC
Seasider3610
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No sorry not full but hundreds shouldn’t have passed the vetting checks apparently
1966_and_all_that
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A sad reflection on our society, from which police officers are recruited.
Costero Poderoso
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A criminal conviction can stop you getting a job in teaching, health care, finance / banking, amongst others including supposedly taxi drivers. Most large corporations in the UK have the capacity, and often do run a criminal records check on job applicants, and are able to use that CR check as reason to not hire. Many UK corporations have the ability to fire people if they are convicted of certain crimes. Many large corporations hire CR consultancies to run periodic checks on staff which apparently is perfectly legal, and the subsequent checks may result in job losses.I would imagine the police in South Africa are more corrupt , anyway on a separate note I think having a criminal conviction should not stop you being able to join The police , we all make mistakes especially in our teens and twenties, if you join the police and put something back every credit
Simply because I had the data to hand in 2015, over 4 million CR checks were carried out in the UK, according to The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies only 1 in 197 had relevance to the job position. If a large proportion of the general population is subject to criminal records you would think that the police would be.
I remember seeing a study about 15 years ago maybe longer, where the Met, had rate of criminal records amongst officers that was something like 4 times the average in the general population.
I also remember see a report from a few years ago that claimed (and I think it was the met again) that estimated most offences by serving officers went unrecorded, and of the offences noted a majority resulted in no action.
If you allow it to go on it just becomes part of the culture, in the same way that visible corruption has now become the culture of government.
Wizaard
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Over 20% would fail any standard vetting apparently.
Classic Frankie Boyle comment. There's been a drop in serious crime during the period of the Queen's funeral. Police too busy to go around assaulting women as usual.