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UK Group Buys Screening Company
July 18, 2013 - Chester-based GB Group has bolstered its criminal record checks business with the £1.3m acquisition of CRD (UK). CRD, based in Crewe and owned by Simon Aspinwall, processes around 55,000 criminal record checks a year for organisations who employ individuals working with children and vulnerable adults. The deal follows last November's £3m acquisition of Nottingham-based TMG CRB which handles 170,000 CRB checks a year. GB now describes itself as the UK's "largest criminal records disclosure umbrella service". It said CRD would be earnings enhancing in its first full year as part of the group. In unaudited accounts for the year to March 31, CRD's net revenue was £492,000 and profit before...
US Snooping Threatens Aussies Trust In Cloud
July 09, 2013 - Concerns about the privacy of corporate data located on U.S.-based cloud computing services have been reignited in Australia following the revelati...
CRB Criminal Record Checks - New Filtering Rules
June 27, 2013 - On 29 May 2013, the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2013 came into force. The ma...
Straightline International Unsurpassed When Searching For Puerto Rico Criminal Records
June 03, 2013 - Everyone in the pre-employment screening business has their favorite method or favorite researcher who performs background checks. In the case...
Six Children Arrested For Distributing Pornography
May 31, 2013 - The Spanish National Police arrested six minors for offences relating to the production and distribution of a sexually explicit video starring two...
International Criminal Record Checks Confusing, Say Some
May 30, 2013 - Suppose the recruiter and hiring manager at a London subsidiary of a U.S. accounting company want to conduct a pre-employment credit check on a can...
Some England criminal records checks can now be monitored online
May 30, 2013 - A Government agency that carries out criminal records checks has introduced an online checking service. The Disclosure and Barring Service (DB...
Tonga criminal clearance probe awaiting overseas information
May 23, 2013 - Tonga’s police commissioner Grant O’Fee says an investigation into the wiping of ciminal records is taking longer than expected because...
India tops in death of newborns
May 22, 2013 - More newborns die on the first day in India than in any other country, according to the latest 'State Of The World's Mothers 2013' repo...
Now, get cop clearance for parlour girls
May 21, 2013 - If you are recruiting girls from outside the state to work in your beauty parlour, you'll need to get a police clearance before taking them on...
China's Rule sealing juvenile records may be revised
May 21, 2013 - China's top prosecuting authority said it is looking into revising a regulation that limits access to juvenile criminal records, a move that ma...
Shoplifters Cost $1b as Staff Theft Soars
May 20, 2013 - The Retailers Association of New Zealand reports that retailers lose as much as $1 billion annually to shoplifting by customers and employees....
Vietnam National credit information database to be developed
May 17, 2013 - Viet Nam aims to develop national credit information database to assist the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) to manage and oversee the local banking sy...
South Korea: A Thriving Sex Industry In A Powerful, Wealthy Super-State
May 16, 2013 - South Korea, a wealthy, powerful Asian super-state, technology hub and stalwart U.S. ally, has a deep, dark secret. Prostitution and the sex trade...
India Takes Background Checks Over The Edge
May 13, 2013 - Imagine a child who hasn't learnt to walk or talk being asked to submit an affidavit stating he has no criminal record or any case pending in c...
Delhi High Court Tells Private Schools To Make Records Public
May 10, 2013 - The Delhi High Court has directed private schools in the Capital to make records, including admission details, available in public domain - an orde...
Study shows young crooks use social media to brag of criminal exploits
May 09, 2013 - With his picture plastered all over the news and Winnipeg police on high alert last week, Terryl Izzard did what seemingly every gangster on the ru...
Canadian Sex Offense Victims Distrust Justice System
May 08, 2013 - A majority of sexual assault victims have little to no confidence in the police, the courts or the criminal justice system, according to a new gove...
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