Police: Vetting
Commons · Question 4020 · Tabled 3 Sep 2024 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 11 Sep 2024
Question
Asked by Daisy Cooper
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2024 to Question 2138 on Police: Vetting, whether her Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of English police forces in delivering Disclosure and
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 11 Sep 2024
The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) send their Enhanced checks to a police force if there is a potential match against the names on the application form and local police systems.DBS commissions 52 independent police disclosure units that are spread g...