The necessity of Police Verification While Hiring Blue Collar Staff

Police verification is necessary before hiring even for the blue collared jobs. This blog explains in details why it is so.

Blue-collar jobs are the most sought after job by people of every background especially with those with good educational qualifications but lower economic backgrounds. It is quite unfortunate to say that, the probability of such individuals of getting involved in crime is much higher. From petty theft cases that rise out of sheer desperation in adolescence, to be associated with a gang due to peer pressure, there have been reported cases of blue-collared employees to have criminal records. Some of such crimes get buried with time and can only be traced with a criminal record check or police database check.

Since it is the time and age when competition is very high, the numbers of jobs are also growing scarce, so it is not uncommon for people to try and hide unfavorable crime records from their pasts. Prospective employees hide their records of criminal past, either to get the job or with the intention of conning the company and its customers. So in order to avoid putting the business, employees and the customers at risk, a Police verification of every prospective hire is very essential.

What Crimes Can Be Prevented By Police Record Check?

Just a few months back the Tribune published a report that a driver of a school allegedly abused a six-year-old girl sexually. There would hardly be anyone who would want something like this to happen to their own or their acquaintance child. If police verification had been performed in the driver before hiring him it would surely have shown results of a criminal past which could have stopped hiring him preventing the incident to take place at all.

The case is the same as hiring domestic help personal chauffeurs, factory employees and even blue collared employees who have access to highly confidential data. As a recruiter, you must be absolutely sure that the person you have selected does not have any tainted past. It is very difficult to guess if a candidate is at all saying the truth to you about their physical and professional details, so guessing a police record without conducting police verification is impossible.

According to the research studies, there has been a huge increase in the crime rates and predictions are there for an even increased crime rate. However, if we notice even more keenly we will be able to see that a police record checks in time some of the potential crimes would have been prevented.

How Background Verification Agencies can help in Police Verification

Background Verification Agencies nowadays use state of the art technologies and procedures that have been created exactly for making the purpose of background verification ease. Such agencies conduct police verification by:

• Conducting a record check of ant filed lawsuit.

• Police criminal record check.

• Checking any record of Court trials.

• Conducting a criminal record check.

• Identity verification with the means of a police record check.