Criminal record checks for the non-profit sector in British Columbia /

The assumption of the multi-disciplinary research team lead by Professor Tim Stockwell, Director of CARBC and Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Victoria, after an extensive review of the monitoring literature, was that no single method for monitoring poly-drug use provided valid estimates of the distribution and consumption of alcohol and drugs in British Columbia. [...] Policing Persons Under the Influence of Drugs and Alcohol Police record checks, sometimes referred to as criminal record checks, are a search of the records held in the information databases of police agencies (Vancouver Police Department [VPD], n.d.). [...] According to the Canadian Mental Health Association of Ontario (n.d.), criminal record checks focus specifically on any criminal convictions a person has received, whereas a police record check includes a criminal record check and any interactions an individual may have had with the police that led to the creation of a police file. [...] The Service, like other police agencies, only discloses the results of the search to the individual requesting the reference check. [...] The guidelines for obtaining a Criminal Occurrence Security Check from the Saskatoon Police Service (2007) include printing off a Criminal Occurrence Security Check application from the Saskatoon Police Service website, filling out the first page of the form, as well as the second if the person is working with vulnerable persons, providing a completed application form with a $35 Canadian money ord