Police vetting/recruitment advice

[TinFoilHat]

Do you still have to be racist to apply?

:)

 

[Zuriblue]

Do you still have to be racist to apply?

:)

 

[TinFoilHat]

I nearly posted constable savage as well.

 

[hallsteve62]

No idea. Didn’t buy either! Just made the joke up!
Wasn’t one of them made as a police badge?

I'll let you off then! I think there was a Police single in the shape of a badge but can't think which one it was.

 

[halfmist]

Personally I would not disclose it full stop. You cannot be held accountable for someone else’s actions that you had no control over.
Why would you want to jeopardise your career.
If it was ever raised by them in future (highly unlikely ) I would just say, sorry I wasn’t aware of my father’s conviction. I was never told about it.

 

[Bobby the blue]

No idea. Didn’t buy either! Just made the joke up!
Wasn’t one of them made as a police badge?

Del Boy wants his joke back.

 

[discopop]

Personally I would not disclose it full stop. You cannot be held accountable for someone else’s actions that you had no control over.
Why would you want to jeopardise your career.
If it was ever raised by them in future (highly unlikely ) I would just say, sorry I wasn’t aware of my father’s conviction. I was never told about it.

So concealing facts and lying, perfect set up for a career in law enforcement

 

[halfmist]

So concealing facts and lying, perfect set up for a career in law enforcement

Nope. Firstly I haven’t seen the application form however I assume it is only to convictions of the applicant. Secondly this conviction is spent under the terms of The Rehabilitations Act. If the applicant is unaware and who is to prove otherwise, it could only be proved as lying if his dad reported it to the police and not to implicate his dad he should say to him they never asked about you.Unlike the old days, certain criminal convictions even by the applicant are no longer a bar to entry let alone those by relatives. Oh and by the way we have all told fibs on an application form or at an interview so no sleep lost there.

 

[Maccblue]

I thought being a wrong'un was a mandatory requirement for being a police officer these days.

Nah I thought most had been bullied at school and joining up would be their only possible chance of revenge

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Personally I would not disclose it full stop. You cannot be held accountable for someone else’s actions that you had no control over.
Why would you want to jeopardise your career.
If it was ever raised by them in future (highly unlikely ) I would just say, sorry I wasn’t aware of my father’s conviction. I was never told about it.

Of course that. Loads wouldnt know anyway, lots of people keep things fro their kids from their past and that is both normal and natural. Its a moot point anyway. It will come up in vetting in any case. I was just seeking to assure the OP that it wouldnt matter at all. But if ever asked just say he knows, because he does know, as do we, and weve never met the OP but he told us.

From memory there is a little tick box underneath the details of parents to say as far as you know have they any cautions or convictions. Again, the lad may not know so will say no. It doesnt matter either way, apart from he does know, and so he should say yes, because its about integrity and transparency and legitimacy. Just say yes. It wont matter at all. The OP was merely after assurance and there is really no reason to debate this. What would is if for any reason he asked about and lied about not knowing, because that shows a level of dishonesty that should be rooted out before they go into the process, and become a copper



(And the become fully dishonest and lacking integrity and blah blah blah and a racist and rapist and a bully or insert rest here.......etc)