This is an excerpt from a recently published Lexology article
An individual, person or organisation can request a police record check on an employee if they have that person's consent. The results must first be disclosed by the police record check provider to the employee who is being searched. Only if they consent after receiving the results may the provider give the information to a third party.
Therefore, employers cannot obtain employee consent to conduct a police record check and directly obtain the results of the check from the record provider.
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=247da329-1533-4a14-a447-43ff9ca6fdb7
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