Police Checks Will Take 6 Weeks

[Piefre 15]

Called two different detachments just outside Calgary. Both told me I'd have to go through the Calgary Police service as I'm not within their jurisdictions. One told me that if I were to show up and I was living in their jurisdiction, it would still take 3 weeks to do. I made sure to state certificate of no conviction for immigration purposes to check CPIC. So that's as straight an answer as I'm going to get, I suppose.

So..looks like it'll be a six week wait for me to hopefully get the right document that Vancouver will hopefully accept because it doesn't look like I can get anything else. What a disaster for what should have been a really simple step. If anyone from Calgary has had to do this recently or in the past, let me know what happened to you because I am pretty much out of options at this point.

Edited July 7, 2011 by Piefre

[JlovesA 109]

Sooooo a question....my fiance just called RCMP and they told her as of June 1, RCMP no longer does these checks....she would have to go to a police station....she does not have a criminal record at all so it would just be one of those Canada wide name checks...

Anyone who has gone to RCMP AFTER JUNE 1 and been able to get this basic background check?

HELP!

Team Katman - was this after June 1 that you had it done at the RCMP?

I work for the RCMP in Ontario. We are not supposed to be performing record checks anymore.

I would try your local Corps of Commissionaires office.

edit: just saw your fiancee went elsewhere, disregard my second sentence.

Edited July 8, 2011 by JlovesA

[Team Katman 9]

Sooooo a question....my fiance just called RCMP and they told her as of June 1, RCMP no longer does these checks....she would have to go to a police station....she does not have a criminal record at all so it would just be one of those Canada wide name checks...

Anyone who has gone to RCMP AFTER JUNE 1 and been able to get this basic background check?

HELP!

Team Katman - was this after June 1 that you had it done at the RCMP?

Hey, sorry I just saw your question now. Yes, I got it done after June 1... on June 10 to be exact.

[kaibosh 3]

Hey, I was wondering if any of you have tried to get the police check or police clearance in Calgary before and what I need to say to them exactly. I just went yesterday to put in a request for a police information check (that's what they called it).

I had to fill out a yellow form that asked me pretty basic stuff like my name, birth date, purpose of the request (I checked 'immigration'), whether I've been convicted of a crime (No) and when I handed the form to them, it was $30 and the woman at the booth told me it'll take around six weeks to get it mailed back to me. Which shocked me and I thought that was strange. I wanted to ask her to clarify but she was very busy and had someone itching to get whatever he needed to get done right after me.

So I shuffled out of there perplexed as to why a name check on someone with no record would take six weeks when everyone else here seems to be able to get their police clearance in a day or two unless you requested a check that involves fingerprinting. Did I fill out the wrong form? I'm going to try to call a different station later this week when I've got time, but I wanted to know if this six weeks thing is standard for Calgary, if the woman at the booth misunderstood me, or if I filled out/requested the wrong thing.

It won't take 6 weeks, I think they just say that as worst case scenario ( criminal record), I got mine done in a small town in BC and they said the same thing 6 weeks, got it 2 weeks later.

[Piefre 15]

It won't take 6 weeks, I think they just say that as worst case scenario ( criminal record), I got mine done in a small town in BC and they said the same thing 6 weeks, got it 2 weeks later.

Thanks, kaibosh. I hope we get it a lot sooner than six weeks. Like someone earlier in the thread said, six weeks is a little extreme for someone with no criminal record. I did check with Vancouver and they said the certificate I'm getting is acceptable so long as it states it checked CPIC or the National Repository. Then I contacted the Calgary police service and they said they don't state CPIC but do mention the National Repository, so that's a load off for now.