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Northern Ireland's Criminal Records Service Reviewed

April 01, 2011 posted by Steve Brownstein

Government management of criminal records is to be reviewed in Northern Ireland.

Sunita Mason, the UK Government's adviser on the management of criminal information in England and Wales, has been appointed to carry out an investigation into the system in Northern Ireland and is expected to report back by the end of June.

AccessNI was established in 2008 but was criticised by employers shortly afterwards for the amount of time it took to vet people.

The review will look at AccessNI's procedures for issuing criminal record disclosures and consider whether this process can be made more efficient and easier, while at the same time maintaining the rigorous checking process.

It will consider how criminal records are held, used and managed. It will also consider if processes in Northern Ireland are consistent with the recently published findings of the Vetting and Barring Scheme by the Home Office.

Ms Mason said Northern Ireland was in some ways ahead of England and Wales in managing information on criminality, adding: "I wish to make sure those systems work for the benefit of everyone."