Another "is this police report ok" question

[Fatty 0]

Ok, our interview on on the 14th of December. I ticked the thing saying we had the police report, because we had one from Central Scotland police (he's lived in Scotland all his life). But then on here some people have been saying we'd need one from New Scotland Yard too.

So we went ahead and ordered one to be on the safe side. And thankfully it came through today. (they received our application on Nov 8th, so that was less than 40 days)

It has come from New Scotland Yard in London. In the subject acess form we filled out, there were two boxes to tick, one for Scotland and one for England and wales. First time we ticked the one for Scotland, and got a response within a week from the Scottish headquarters saying there's nothing on the Scottish computers about him. Second time we only ticked the england and wales one and it was sent to New Scotland Yard....and we got this one back.

Only thing I'm worried about is it says "In reply to your request for information held about you by the central scotland police" bla bla bla

Now later on it does say "there is no information help about you in the personal record category of the police national computer. That surely means they looked at the national computers and not just Scotland right?

What do you think?

[Caroline 0]

Hi

I also have my interview on the 14th Dec. Good luck!

I have also posted worried messages about my police clearance. I can't answer your question but it seems to me the embassy don't expect to see more than one UK police clearance, so you should be well covered. That seems to make sense, otherwise some people would have to get quite a few different clearances from different parts of the country.

Fingers crossed for next week.

Caroline

[no name 1]

Hi

I can't answer your question but it seems to me the embassy don't expect to see more than one UK police clearance, so you should be well covered. That seems to make sense, otherwise some people would have to get quite a few different clearances from different parts of the country.

Actually no, the NSY one will cover all of the UK & would be the one you need to get.

Edited December 6, 2006 by devilette

[Lansbury 19]

Ok, our interview on on the 14th of December. I ticked the thing saying we had the police report, because we had one from Central Scotland police (he's lived in Scotland all his life). But then on here some people have been saying we'd need one from New Scotland Yard too.

So we went ahead and ordered one to be on the safe side. And thankfully it came through today. (they received our application on Nov 8th, so that was less than 40 days)

It has come from New Scotland Yard in London. In the subject acess form we filled out, there were two boxes to tick, one for Scotland and one for England and wales. First time we ticked the one for Scotland, and got a response within a week from the Scottish headquarters saying there's nothing on the Scottish computers about him. Second time we only ticked the england and wales one and it was sent to New Scotland Yard....and we got this one back.

Only thing I'm worried about is it says "In reply to your request for information held about you by the central scotland police" bla bla bla

Now later on it does say "there is no information help about you in the personal record category of the police national computer. That surely means they looked at the national computers and not just Scotland right?

What do you think?

The information comes from the Police National Computer. The same information is available to ALL police forces in England, Scotland and Wales and whichever one you apply to for the police certificate it will contain identical information when it is received.

The only difference is if someone has lived in Northern Ireland you need to apply to the PSNI as there criminal records are separate to the mainland UK.

David Hedges

Detective SO15 Counter Terrorist Command

New Scotland Yard.

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